Six archers in five different Olympic Games won gold medals using their products.
The projecting part of the polygon consists of archers, either standing or kneeling, with crossbows or handbows and quivers and so appears to be the vanguard of the phalanx.
As Shakespeare records in Henry V, the Welsh archers wore leeks at the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
The three best archers had gone up into the hills north of the bay and returned laden with a pair of wild goats which were now roasting over a fire.