"Roman Tech: Whistling Sling Bullets" Topic
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TKindred  | 15 Jun 2016 7:37 p.m. PST |
Saw this and thought it was pretty neat: Some 1,800 years ago, Roman troops used "whistling" sling bullets as a "terror weapon" against their barbarian foes, according to archaeologists who found the cast lead bullets at a site in Scotland.Weighing about 1 ounce, each of the bullets had been drilled with a 0.2-inch hole that the researchers think was designed to give the soaring bullets a sharp buzzing or whistling noise in flight. link |
| Rubber Suit Theatre | 16 Jun 2016 2:46 a.m. PST |
Or they could have just been chucking fishing weights because they were low on regulation ammo. All sorts of stuff got melted down into musket balls, and a sling wouldn't require the recasting. |
| bc1745 | 16 Jun 2016 3:24 a.m. PST |
Burnswark Hill lies a few miles north of the line of Roman forts and ramparts known as Hadrian's Wall, built during the reign of the emperor Hadrian between A.D. 117 and 138. Only Fox can reduce a world heritage site to this level…… |
| TKindred | 16 Jun 2016 4:00 a.m. PST |
Well, Fox is the only one who has done a story on this, so I thing that that speaks volumes as to the other news sites. I'll take Fox first, before I read other news services. |
| bc1745 | 16 Jun 2016 5:19 a.m. PST |
Covered by lots of different media outlets not just Fox……. |
| skipper John | 16 Jun 2016 5:19 a.m. PST |
Hey, who wouldn't want "fair and balanced"? |
| Green Tiger | 16 Jun 2016 5:43 a.m. PST |
Rubber Suit Theatre- a few years ago I purshased an alleged Roman Sling Shot and I am pretty sure it is actually a weight for a fishing net – glad to know I'm not alone! |
| Winston Smith | 16 Jun 2016 9:58 a.m. PST |
The article seems to imply that slingers were elite missile troops, when they were usually conscripted shepherds.
"Decimus. Hand me the 100 meter shot. The whistling ones." |
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considers the Battle of Delium, 424 B.C.