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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Pompeii wall Apr 27^th, 2020 at 7:12am Iron slingshot found embedded in the wall of an aristocratic house at Pompeii. Wonder what happened.
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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Pompeii wall Reply #1 - Apr 27^th, 2020 at 10:12am You know you have enemy's when your house gets peppered with glandes...
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2811 Gender:	Re: Pompeii wall Reply #2 - Apr 27^th, 2020 at 4:36pm Was soll das sein?
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Caldou Funditor Offline Moving the world... rock by rock. Posts: 779 Picardie, France	Re: Pompeii wall Reply #3 - Apr 27^th, 2020 at 4:45pm This iron seems strange to me : the Romans used lead (sure) or clay (maybe) or stones (maybe) for their slings, but Iron was way more useful in other forms. Could not it be some volcano result ?
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Reply #4 - Apr 27^th, 2020 at 9:49pm

the lava next to it also looks bubbly like it was still hot outgassing when placed there, like hot tuffa, not like something that was shaped or part a wall. Possibly a piece of iron rubble or shot caught up in a pyroclastic flow, being iron it could survive the high temp, the surface above it to the left does look broken out, but it would certainly be a forceful impact. An iron insert or anchor mount of some sort ?
does look pretty cool.

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