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CAROLINGIAN HEAVY ARCHER An extract from Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath 50. CAROLINGIAN HEAVY ARCHER This man, from a ms. of c. 924, wears a short mail or scale corselet and a helmet with a nape-guard. Other sources show archers dressed identically to 48. It has often been suggested that such figures as this represent dismounted horsemen which, in view of the fact that horsemen had to provide a bow and one or more quivers of arrows as part of their equipment (see notes 52 and 55), is not impossible. As we have seen, the bow was first adopted by the Franks in the 4th century, bu