Mauro-- perhaps you are concentrating my various posts on historical topics in one thread for space reasons. But if so, the specific heading, and information, gets lost in a single massive thread: this does not help a historical researcher who is scanning a pageful of topics. At least, the topic should be "bullets, etc". But it's a shame: for instance, the information about C17th urban slinging in France (with two locales, Paris and Poitiers), is now lost in a long thread: if it gets several pages, the info is only retrievable by searches, and not reachable by browsing. This is a real reduction in functionality. I speak as a professional researcher (so I deal with issues of searching and serendipity), and a writer (so I deal with issues of keeping "paragraphs", namely information together in coherent clumps).

Right now, this thread collects info on Celtic clay bullets, Carthaginian clay bullets, Celtic bullet moulds, Polynesian slingstone bags, and early-modern European slinging. Each one of these topics is of potential interest, and each one had, before being gathered in one thread, a starter post with a precise bit of information referred to and clearly labelled.

Thanks for the reassurance !

And thanks for all the good work moderating.

Gallia, 1943, vol. 1.2, 83-124, excavations at Gergovia (!) for 1941 and 1942-- mentions "galets de basalte roulés, apportés des pentes du plateau, et qui ont pu servir de pierres de fronde", found in Hallstatt (i.e. C3rd BCE) context, and often in big "ammo dumps"-- i.e. the familiar Celtic slingstone heaps, as found on British sites.