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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3410	British Museum sling bullets online with photos Mar 9^th, 2009 at 4:25am I hope this link works-- it's from the Brit Mus. website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_resu...
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3410	Re: British Museum sling bullets online with photo Reply #1 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 4:25am Yep, it works.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: British Museum sling bullets online with photo Reply #2 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 5:57am Great find!
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3419 UK	Re: British Museum sling bullets online with photo Reply #3 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 9:57am Fantastic! I see a lot of them have a hole drilled in the side, I an guessing to make them louder in flight?
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3410	Re: British Museum sling bullets online with photo Reply #4 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 11:12am The drilled hole phenomenon is a problem: in some cases, it may be because those who picked them in modern times up wore them as charms around their neck. In others, the holes may be ancient.
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wanderer Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1360 Texas Gender:	Re: British Museum sling bullets online with photo Reply #5 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 11:15am Very nice to see these. Thanks for the link! I see that there are quite a number of slings also in the inventory most as yet unphotographed. I'll be looking for those also .
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3419 UK	Re: British Museum sling bullets online with photo Reply #6 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 2:32pm Once again I am stuck by how light the bullets were. Most are between 25-30 grams. I'll have to make a tiny pouch and try to work out how you throw something that small.
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