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Pompeii wall
Apr 27
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, 2020 at 7:12am
Iron slingshot found embedded in the wall of an aristocratic house at Pompeii. Wonder what happened.
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Apr 27
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, 2020 at 10:12am
You know you have enemy's when your house gets peppered with glandes...
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, 2020 at 4:36pm
Was soll das sein?
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, 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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, 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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Pyrit? Markesit?
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