Greetings friends. I don't know if it has ever been posted but I will post a video that I found very interesting about the Balearic Islands slings, and their use in ancient warfare.
as a passionate about ancient and medieval war history and strategy and a total war game player, I also posted an interesting article on the history of slings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDtrwNY0Zk&t=562s

As a passionate about ancient and medieval war history and strategy and a total war game player, I also post an interesting article about the history of slings and the time when they were the best and most fearsome projectile weapons of antiquity:
http://ancient-battles.com/warriors/ancient-slingers.php

Whoever is interested too, there are the king and generals and history march channels on youtube that tell the stories of the wars and put us inside the battlefield, showing us what the wars were like. interesting to see our beloved slingers perform and learn some history.

Thank you for your attention.

Welcome! Have you done much slinging yourself or are you just interested in the history? The history of the sling is really fascinating.

Fundeiro88 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2021 at 12:27pm:

That's the right answer! Now you are truly welcome

Slings were most definitely used in Wales, as slings might have exceeded the importance of the bow across Iron Age Europe.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/reinvention/archive/volume7issue2/swan/


However, I think you’ll run into problems finding Wales specific evidence. There have been a few cases of sling projectiles found, but they generally seem pretty ignored. There are almost no pictures.

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https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/97d4f024-8dfb-371a-a42d-d1dcb1606
c8e/Iron-Age--Roman-stone-sling-shot/

However, I was able to find a few pictures with one definite sling bullet. These possible Roman “ballista balls” are actually the size of large sling stones. How do we know these are sling stones? We don’t, except for one. One of the pictures has a biconical (American football) shape, which is one of the most aerodynamic shapes and a good indicator of a sling stone.

https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/771c7786-68d0-353e-aabc-a44d75e22
e91/Roman-stone-ballista-ball/

As of now, this is the best I’ve seen. I don’t know why there isn’t much of any data from Iron Age sites (lack of welsh archaeological interest?). However, we get a lot more evidence during the Roman period. For lack of any better evidence, it’s probably a safe bet that sling usage was fairly similar to all the neighboring regions, probably lasting throughout the medieval period and possibly into fairly recent times.

Curious Aardvark wrote on Jul 19^th, 2021 at 8:40am:


I was thinking the other day that there should be a book describing the sling and it's use in the library of alexandria but it isn't anymore...