Slinging.org Forum - Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon)

Welcome, Guest. Please Login

(Moderators: Bill Skinner, David Morningstar, Chris, Mauro Fiorentini, Curious Aardvark, Masiakasaurus, Rat Man)

Pages: 1

Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) (Read 1730 times)

Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3427	Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Dec 3^rd, 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
Back to top	IP Logged

TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 839 france Gender:	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #1 - Dec 6^th, 2020 at 4:03am Thank you for this link. I'll read it, soon.
Back to top	IP Logged

TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 839 france Gender:	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #2 - Dec 8^th, 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.
Back to top	IP Logged

Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4481 Finland	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #3 - Dec 8^th, 2020 at 11:07am To quote a videogame: "War... War never changes..."
Back to top	You are a great guy Kick but also slightly scary at times. - Morphy "Nothing matters, but it’s perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people." - H.P. Lovecraft, in a letter to Frank Belknap Long, 7 October, 1923 IP Logged

IronGoober Interfector Viris Spurii Offline ...and now, No. 1, the larch... Posts: 1885 California Gender:	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #4 - Dec 8^th, 2020 at 11:43am Kick wrote on Dec 8^th, 2020 at 11:07am: To quote a videogame: "War... War never changes..." 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.
Back to top	John R. IP Logged

TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 839 france Gender:	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #5 - Dec 10^th, 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.
Back to top	IP Logged

Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3427	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #6 - Jan 4^th, 2021 at 5:51am I hope you loaded it in your sling and threw it into the woods
Back to top	IP Logged

TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 839 france Gender:	Re: Balearic slingers in Gaul (Vieux-Laon) Reply #7 - Jan 4^th, 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.
Back to top	IP Logged

Pages: 1

(Moderators: Bill Skinner, David Morningstar, Chris, Mauro Fiorentini, Curious Aardvark, Masiakasaurus, Rat Man)