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General >> Project Goliath - The History of The Sling >> Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1607032707 Message started by Thearos on Dec 3rd, 2020 at 4:58pm |
Title: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by Thearos on Dec 3rd, 2020 at 4:58pm
A site in Gaul (Vieux-Laon, ancient Bibrax) was besieged by Caesar in 57 BCE, with Balearic slingers. A survey on the site found a number of coins, including one very worn bronze. When cleamed, it turned out to be a piece from Ebusus-- ancient Ibiza, of the late C1st BCE.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9604678j/f17.item |
Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by TOMBELAINE on Dec 6th, 2020 at 4:03am
Thank you for this link.
I'll read it, soon. |
Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by TOMBELAINE on Dec 8th, 2020 at 5:46am
I read it.
While it is a bit technical, the aerial photographs show the ditches of the roman camp and in the same place the trenches of the first world war. Impressive and a little depressing. |
Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by Kick on Dec 8th, 2020 at 11:07am
To quote a videogame: "War... War never changes..."
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Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by IronGoober on Dec 8th, 2020 at 11:43am Kick wrote on Dec 8th, 2020 at 11:07am:
Best game of all time. Revision: Best game that I've played, but I stopped playing new games around 2005...so, take that as you may. |
Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by TOMBELAINE on Dec 10th, 2020 at 2:48pm
I discovered a kind of hillfort (éperon barré in french).
Several years after, during a walk, I found on the ground a grenade of the second world war at 10 meters of the hillfort. Probably dug by a guy with a metal detector who left the grenade behind. What courage ! Other war, same place. :-? |
Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by Thearos on Jan 4th, 2021 at 5:51am
I hope you loaded it in your sling and threw it into the woods
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Title: Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Post by TOMBELAINE on Jan 4th, 2021 at 8:49am
I put it back in the hole, covered with dead leathes. Put a wooden cross on.
Then I called the police. |
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