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Title: A sling from Melandra?
Post by David Morningstar on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 3:29pm

http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/wwwopac.exe?database=dcatalo&rf=000028466

http://www.glossopheritage.co.uk/pages/melandra.html ( do a find in this page for 'sling' )

http://www.peakdistrictinformation.com/visits/visitshow.php?visit=Melandra%20Roman%20Fort

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardotalia

Its not far from either me or C_A.....

[EDIT] The guy who seems to have identified this sling is based at Manchester University. How is that for a stroke of luck? I am pursuing inquiries....

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/john.wild/

Title: Re: A sling from Melandra?
Post by curious_aardvark on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 7:35pm

any pics - roman leather from that period tends to be few and far between and generally a bit 'dog eared' lol

Roman fort in the peak distraict eh ?
this country is riddled with old forts lol

Title: Re: A sling from Melandra?
Post by Aussie on Oct 12^th, 2009 at 1:50am

For a moment I thought you said, "riddled with old farts." Course that may be true too.

Title: Re: A sling from Melandra?
Post by curious_aardvark on Oct 12^th, 2009 at 8:54am

lol both my friend both :-)

Title: Re: A sling from Melandra?
Post by winkleried on Oct 12^th, 2009 at 11:18pm

I second C_A's question. Are there any pics of the Sling, or failing that an online Source for the entire article??????

I also noticed that the gent in question seems to be a textile expert, so maybe we actually have the remnants of a woven and braided sling from the roman period, (DROOLING)

Marc Adkins

Curious Aardvark wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 7:35pm:

any pics - roman leather from that period tends to be few and far between and generally a bit 'dog eared' lol

Roman fort in the peak distraict eh ?
this country is riddled with old forts lol