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=== Arrow Attachment===There are two main ways of attaching arrowheads, socketed or tanged. Generally the socketed type was more common in England and the tanged, more common in Scandinavia.* Socketed heads are glued onto the sharpened end of an arrow shaft* Tanged heads are inserted into a hole drilled into the end of the arrow shaft. The tangs themselves tend to be about 2cm long. To reinforce the head development they were sometimes bound in twine such as sinew or were wrapped in birch bark stuck on with tar. At Hedeby and Birka some of the tanged arrow heads were bound on with brass wire.===Materials===Arrows were usually of iron but it is possible that bone or simple fire hardened tips may have also been used (Manley 1985 p.223).===Tip types===During the Viking Age 3 main shapes of arrowhead dominate* Leaf. There are the generic early form of arrow head that can be used both for hunting and for war. Numerous finds of these come from all of Regia’s periods.* Shouldered. Just like the leaf shaped heads, these are multi-purpose heads and were used throughout Regia’s period. Many arrowheads are not strictly either leaf or shouldered and were often something in-between.* Bodkin. These are used purely for war as they are less efficient at killing unarmed warriors or animals than the broad-bladed leaf or shouldered arrow heads. They were absent in Regia’s early periods and only start to appear from around AD 960 onwards. Very quickly becoming the dominant form from then on. Bodkin heads are designed to split open mail shirts and are used by archaeologists as an indicator as to the amount of volume of armoured warriors. Some bodkins could be quite long, with an extreme example being a 23cm long bodkin having been found from C13th Dublin). <br>There is no easy way to categorise broad-headed arrow heads into leaf-shaped or shouldered (angular) shapes. Many arrowheads do not easily fall into either category. [HALPIN 2008:p.81-85]. Leaf shaped and tanged very common in Scandinavia [OTTAWAY 1992:p.711]. Later C11th appears an abrupt change to socketed elongated tapering heads (bodkins). [OTTAWAY 1992:p.714]<br><br>As well as these common forms we have evidence for many other types of arrow heads:<br><br>