Finding the Hunger family farm on Pembroke Rd is easy – just look for a huge medieval trebuchet sticking up above the trees. The trebuchet is an ancient siege weapon developed in the 12th Century in France and Asia as an improvement on a basic catapult. It uses a slingshot to increase the velocity of…
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Keeping a medieval craft alive
Orne engineer Tony Leese-Rogers makes longbows from oak, buffalo horns and old washing machine parts. He speaks to Mick Austin about his work. It is not often you get the chance to turn a childhood fantasy into reality, but one man in Normandy is doing just that – and in the process is keeping an…
