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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3401	Sling bullets at Pompeii Aug 2^nd, 2017 at 5:47pm http://emilyshauser.weebly.com/hocw100 http://writingthepastblog.blogspot.gr/2013/06/pompeii-summer-of-archaeology.html -- the wall shows impacts from shot from engines, and in 2009 the author found sling bullets in the layers next to the wall (with catapult balls)
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Teg Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1105 Central Europe Gender:	Re: Sling bullets at Pompeii Reply #1 - Aug 7^th, 2017 at 5:03pm Nice find! (Aren't the bullets from 1999 or have I misread?)
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Re: Sling bullets at Pompeii
Reply #2 - Aug 7^th, 2017 at 7:21pm

Teg wrote on Aug 7^th, 2017 at 5:03pm:

Nice find!
(Aren't the bullets from 1999 or have I misread?)

It looks like they were excavated then. Supposedly, the bullets are from a siege in 89 BCE.

I had no idea that there were sling bullets found at Pompeii. That's pretty neat. They look like you could still sling them today from those photos.

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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8028	Re: Sling bullets at Pompeii Reply #3 - Aug 7^th, 2017 at 9:08pm Those are interesting. They are so small, yet they must have provided an advantage over heavier stones or why bother using them.
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