Slinging.org Forum - Museum Collections

DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Museum Collections Sep 27^th, 2006 at 3:51am It seems that many museum arms collections deal with later weaponry, particularly bladed weapons, armor, and firearms. I'd like to start a list of museum arms collections that deal with ancient weapons, which of course would include the sling, and perhaps recreations of ancient weapons as well.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #1 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 2:20pm Petrie museum in London, has an Egyptian sling and lead glande Hedeby Museum in Denmark has the 2 8th cent. Viking slings Copenhagen Museum in Denmark has samples of slingstones It seems every little local museum in Britain has some sling stones in it. Give me time to check them.
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SlingWolf Senior Member Offline Guns dont kill people... Magic missles do! Posts: 362 Kenmore, NY Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #2 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 3:38pm Sounds like old british people used slings alot You kids get off my lawn! THWACK! SlingWolf
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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 belgium Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #3 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 5:11pm oh yeah slinging gravel at pesky kids on your lawn lovely gotta remember that one when i'm old and have a lawn to call my own
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Conteilboos Descens Offline Posts: 157 USA, Arizona Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #4 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 6:22pm LOL For me: THWACK! You kids keep away from my cave!!! 8)
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Re: Museum Collections
Reply #5 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 6:57pm

   Slingers!
   For anyone in the New England area, The Higgins Armoury Museum is a must see. This is a superb collection of arms and armor in Worcester, Massachusetts. The history of this museum is especially interesting, as the entire collection was once the private property of John Woodman Higgins, an industrialist whose family owned Worcester Pressteel during WWII.
   Try this link:

   http://www.higgins.org/

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SlingWolf Senior Member Offline Guns dont kill people... Magic missles do! Posts: 362 Kenmore, NY Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #6 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 7:15pm Oh no... ive given taiki an idea! BTW like my new picture? MAGIC MISSLES FTW! I'm getting a shirt that says that SlingWolf=nerd SlingWolf
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #7 - Sep 27^th, 2006 at 9:51pm Bishop Museum in Hawaii has a TON of slings from all over the Pacific.
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DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Re: Museum Collections Reply #8 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 2:50am If the folks over on the Cestrosphendon thread succeed in producing the real thing, which museum would most likely be interested in putting a recreation of the device on display?
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DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Re: Museum Collections Reply #9 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 2:54am Quote: Bishop Museum in Hawaii has a TON of slings from all over the Pacific. Any sling stones that look like little footballs? When I was a kid, a friend who had lived on Guam had a football-shaped stone he brought from there.
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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 belgium Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #10 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 6:38am Quote: Oh no... ive given taiki an idea! BTW like my new picture? MAGIC MISSLES FTW! I'm getting a shirt that says that SlingWolf=nerd SlingWolf sure i like the message wolf but when i cast mage armour i would LOVE to see you try and lay a hand on me with that niffy missile
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #11 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 10:35am Cissbury ring in Northern England has examples of sling stones. Pathos district museum in Cyprus has the same.
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Re: Museum Collections
Reply #12 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 11:23am

The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow has a number of slingstones and lead projectiles.

There is a picture of some of these at
http://www.exploratio.org/image_database/weapons/IMGP2511.jpg

The lead 'acorns' are complete with the cups! These are described as being 'on loan'. So.. which way around would you launch them?

Apparently they also have some slings from the South Pacific, but these were not on display.

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SlingWolf Senior Member Offline Guns dont kill people... Magic missles do! Posts: 362 Kenmore, NY Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #13 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 6:43pm Excuse me Taiki? my missles can crush you any day! Dont make me get you in off topic chat! SlingWolf
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Museum Collections Reply #14 - Sep 28^th, 2006 at 8:28pm Quote: Any sling stones that look like little footballs? When I was a kid, a friend who had lived on Guam had a football-shaped stone he brought from there. From what I last saw, they had quite a few.
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