A bowman shooting an arrow is clothed in a striped red and yellow kilt and a red shirt and tights.
The bow appears to be a shortbow.  

In the 13 th century the English abandoned the shortbow and replaced it with the Welsh longbow. They then defeated the Scots at Dupplin (1332) and the French at Crécy (1346). Arrows are fired from a longbow in faster succession than the bolts of the expensive, heavy crossbow, which was introduced much later.
This never became popular in the British Isles.

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