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Title
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Target Crossbow with windlass
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HCA Identifier
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XI.100
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Date
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c. 1750
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Location
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Flanders/Europe
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Description
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Steel bow secured to the rectangular wooden stock with bow irons which also holds stirrup with a curved bar in position all anchored by transverse pin. The front of the stock is thicker with a steel groove for the bolts. The nut is a copper alloy. The stock extends beneath the nut for a left hand grip. Inlaid reinforcing plates on both sides in the form of rampant lions holding an asymmetrical shell with the initials “G.R.” inside with a shell beneath them and scrolls above. The stock is thinner at the end where the top is inlaid with mother-of-pearl and the number “1162” inscribed. Butt is reinforced with a steel cover to take the windlass. Trigger is a lever with round baluster moulding. Bowstring with simple loops on each end covered with a circular winding. Bright, finished six-wheeled windlass, curved metal cranks with handles made of wood.
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Source
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Collection Royal Armouries, Study Collection, Leeds, England
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Crossbow Top Measurements
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Span: 215.0 mm
Length: 1092.0 mm
Width: 788.0 mm
Weight: 8.79 kg
