Cestrosphendon illustration

[Anonymous]

Ave,<br>
this may have been posted and I missed it, but it seems good and has a photo of a cestros at the bottom of the page. It was posted on Roman Army Talk Yahoo group.<br>
www.slinging.org/24.html<br>
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Vale <p></p><i></i>

[Vincula]

But different than Johny's sketch, so it seems to be wrong. <p></p><i></i>

[Mithras]

It's not wrong. It works fine! Its a mock up of a cestrosphendone prototype tested by another slingophile.<br>
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I've also tested the Shumate style of cestrosphendone sling with equally effective results. No photo on my site, though, because its made of lack-lustre string construction<br>
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Paul Elliott <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=mithras@romanarmytalk>Mithras</A> at: 6/26/04 8:27 pm<br></i>

[Vincula]

Quote:</em></strong><hr>It's not wrong. It works fine!<hr><br>
I'm sure it works fine.<br>
It just ain't a <em>cestrosphendon</em>, as it doesn't follow the ancient discription. <p></p><i></i>

[Iagoba]

Aitor, How works?
I have never seen that in the Ludis (maybe avoding collateral damages...)

[Dan Howard]

FWIW there is an article on the cestrosphendone in the Royal Armouries journal Arms and Armour Vol 2, No 1, pp79-88. The author retranslates the original sources and uses these to make his reconstruction.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Quote:</em></strong><hr>It's not wrong. It works fine!<hr><br>
I'm sure it works fine.<br>
It just ain't a <em>cestrosphendon</em>, as it doesn't follow the ancient discription.

<p></p><i></i>

hmmmm, shield shaped=sling-patch...maybe?

[Apollyon]

Looks like the illustration or the link to the illustration in the first post got messed up; I'm going to try to repost it.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v24 ... stros2.jpg

[Apollyon]

Sure I've tried it! <a href="http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v299/lord_mithras/History1/kestros4.jpg">img78.photobucket.com/alb...stros4.jpg In this cast, the kestros dart landed just left of the tree next to the long grass at its base, a distance of 45m.<br>

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v29 ... stros4.jpg

[Apollyon]

FWIW there is an article on the cestrosphendone in the Royal Armouries journal Arms and Armour Vol 2, No 1, pp79-88. The author retranslates the original sources and uses these to make his reconstruction.

I came across this article on the kestros:

Polybius' Description of the kestros
Author: Hollenback, George M.
Source: Mnemosyne, Volume 62, Number 3, 2009 , pp. 459-463
Publisher: BRILL

[M. Demetrius]

I'm still threatening to make a couple of those. Gotta get my slinging technique better, though, before I start hurling sharp pointed things around...