I confess. I am a reenactor. I'm right when some Roman politician needed more fame (and so, more power). Worse, I'm from France, previously known as Gaul.

But I'm also a slinger (is it redeeming enough ? ) So I'm looking for all kind of proof that our mighty sling was used in this place during those times.

So this topic is for all proof of Celtic slinging in Gaul before the Roman Occupation and other legends and stories about Celtic slinging.

Feel free to contribute, in whatever language you find info, so that I can show how great slinging is through the Ages !

This mighty researcher also found several great informations :
Thearos wrote on Mar 14^th, 2013 at 6:19am:


As you can see, a few hundred years before JC (Julius Caesar) is fine, a few years later is not. Yes, I'm a Separatist, ROMANES EUNT DOMUS ! (Or whatever Biggus Dickus says)

sometimes I sling stuff of that size for long range accuracy practice.
It doesn't look that damaging until you consider I am lobbing brick-sized stones(almost) over 100 yards.

A dig in France finds many lots of slingable stones !
Here is the linky : http://www.uxellodunum.com/media/documents/Etude%20galets%20Loulie%20fevrier%202...

Also attached in pdf in case the Internet take it down !

With nice tables to sort the weight and kind of stone !
for my time, they range from 30grams to 2000... Who whant to play "Catch it with your teeth" with me ?



And 150 000 stones from 125 before the crucified
It's another place but what a find !

I'm an happy reenacting slinger !

Man I wish I knew french so I could read that dig site document Caldou posted..

It looks very intriguing as sling stone size is a subject of debate around these parts 

Caldou wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2015 at 7:19am:

lol true. But aside from the chart part on p. 19, in some spots I couldn't tell if a number represented a stone size or the distance from a certain building it was found or what.. so a translation to English would be very helpful.

I was using a bad translator. I forgot about google translator so I'll just use that, but thank you very much 

& Thanks for posting the document!

This is how interpret E20 (p. 6):

1. The Gauls occupied a position in front of the cliff or fortif. and shot sling-stones at the Romans as the latter surged up the valley.

2. The Romans responded by accurate catapult fire and archery to drive off the Gauls

3. The Gauls fell back to a position out of range or sheltered from Roman heavy fire. The Roman infantry advanced. It was stopped a first time (first concentration of sling-stones), then charged and stopped for the second time (second concentration), before the Gauls scattered while keeping up harassing fire (scatter of sling-stones up the slope).

No, this is Thearos reading of the stones and metallic pieces