An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow. A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabi
Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom)
Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock
Warring States bronze arrowheads
African bow and arrows in a quiver
An arrowhead or point is the usually sharpened and hardened tip of an arrow, which contributes a majority of the projectile mass and is responsible for impacting and penetrating a target, or sometimes
Chert arrowhead, Late Neolithic (Rhodézien) (3300–2400 BC), current France
Arrowheads made of bone and antler found in Nydam Mose (3rd–5th century)
Ancient Greek bronze leaf-shaped, trefoil and triangular arrowheads
Some arrowheads made of quartz