The shaft is made from two pieces of wood, circular in cross-section, spliced together 283 mm from tip and secured with sinew wrapping. The shaft flattens to form a U-shaped nock at proximal end. The ends of two feathers (only fragments remain) are secured to proximal end of shaft with sinew wrapping. The foreshaft is made from a single piece of bone, oval in cross-section, cut to form three notches on one side at proximal end. The foreshaft is inserted into distal end of shaft and secured with sinew wrapping. A triangular iron point is inserted into distal end of foreshaft and is secured with circular iron rivet.

• Width: 20mm, length: 856mm

• : British Naval Franklin Search Expedition 1850-55 (HMS Enterprise) (1850 - 1855)