What's Going on in Europe in the Late 19th Century?

In the 19th century, an American archaeologist was traveling on the continent. He started asking people about this process that he was still observing happening in European villages. And we can actually then look to English history, and we can find documentary accounts of similar practices in the medieval period. So what we're seeing in the late 19th century seems to be a latent version of something which was also occurring in the Medieval period. The Nationalistic archery myth comes along later. But there's no need to go around sharpening your arrows at all. A lot of these archery practice butts were its significant distances from the village church. You'd have a long walk, you know, maybe