Hi Guys,
Attached is an article by A. Bichler, posted with permission, into a fascinating crossbow. The report is in German, but there is an English language summary at the end. To cut a long story short, the horn-bow and tickler do not belong to the tiller and the tickler is relatively modern, the prod is contemporary with the tiller but the slot for the bow-string is too narrow for its string. Also, the bow has been cut down by 16cm or so at some point and made thicker, perhaps to mimic ...
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