Ancient Weapons in Britain

A groundbreaking study of the weaponry used in combat thousands of years ago.

Few accounts of ancient warfare have looked at how the weapons were made and how they were actually used in combat. Logan Thompson's pioneering survey traces the evolution of weapons in Britain across three thousand years, from the Bronze Age to the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Insights gained from painstaking practical research and technical analysis shed new light on the materials used, the processes of manu...