Guess what ... an ammunition

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by fernando

You mean replicas of Roman examples, Wayne ? Looks like both glands and molds have been made last Saturday .

i found them via google, i am assuming the wooden mold is recent and they have not been polishing old bullets. they are representative of other ancient ones tho. experimental archaeology.

a more thorough googling found a bunch of better and somewhat older examples: acorn & whistlers, old thumbs, scorpio & bird (?), flower power, and a horde of roman shot found in situ near a scottish hill fort, Burnswark Hill, in the Dumfries region of southwest Scotland, that they were attacking.

...and now the science, more experimental archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MB7M27WnG0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJBKfQFD8I

[fernando]

Originally Posted by kronckew

...and now the science, more experimental archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MB7M27WnG0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJBKfQFD8I

Wayne, i was expecting more from you . These movies are rather virtual: the guy is using a 'sling cannon' instead of the real thing. Probably he is afraid to fail the shot and hit the forehead (or other area) of the guy next to him. ... and only he could hear the hollow gland whistle ... with a pass to my current hard hear .
And from the three options offered by the scholar for the whistle purpose, i guess i would elect the psychological (scaring) one.



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