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Legionaries with slings
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Hello Joakim!
if it can be useful, in addition to the works mentioned above this is a bit 'of bibliography (certainly not complete) about the "ammunition" and use of the sling in the ancient world

Bosman, A.V.A.J. (1995) Pouring lead in the pouring rain, making slingshot under battle conditions.
Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, 6: 99-103.
Brélaz, C. (2007) Des balles de fronde à Daskyléion: armes de guerre ou armes de chasse? Anatolia
Antiqua, 15: 71-82.
Brélaz, C., Ducrey, P. (2003) Une grappe de balles de fronde en plomb à Érétrie. La technique de fabrication
des projectiles et l’usage de la fronde en Grèce ancienne. Antike Kunst, 46: 99-113.
Cerchiai, C. (1984) Le glandes plumbeae della Collezione Gorga. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica
Comunale di Roma, 88: 191-211.
Greep, S.J. (1987) Lead Sling-Shot from Windridge Farm, St Albans and the use of the Sling by the
Roman Army in Britain. Britannia, 18: 183-200.
Grunfeld, F. (1996) The Unsung Sling. Military History Quarterly, 9 (1): 51-55.
Hellmann, M.C. (1982) Collection Froehner: balles de fronde grecques. Bulletin de correspondance
hellénique, 106, 1: 75-87.
Henry, B.M. (1972) La fronde en Italie du VIIe siècle avant J.-C. à l’Empire Romain. Diplôme École
pratique des hautes études (EPHE), I-II. Paris
–– (1975-76) La fronde chez les Celtes: les projectiles et leur utilisation. Bull. Angers, 2: 17-24.
–– (1978) Les Balles de fronde étrusques en plomb. Congrès national des sociétés savantes, Lille, 1976:
9-19.
Korfmann, M. (1973) The Sling as a weapon. Scientific American, 229 (4): 34-42.
Py, M., Guyard, L. (1999) Un moule à balles de fronde inscrit d’époque républicaine à Paris (rue Saint-
Martin). Bull. Instrumentum, 9, juin 1999: 29-30.
Richardson, T. (1998) Ballistic Testing of the Sling. Royal Armouries Yearbook, 3: 44-49.
Völling, T. (1990) Funditores im römischen Heer. Saalburg-Jahrbuch, 45: 24-58.
Vutiropulos, N. (1991) The Sling in the Aegean Bronze Age. Antiquity, 65: 280-284.


Very Best!
S.M.
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SM.

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Legionaries with slings - by Joakim - 11-21-2013, 08:43 AM
Legionaries with slings - by Robert - 11-21-2013, 09:59 AM
Legionaries with slings - by Frank - 11-21-2013, 11:32 AM
Legionaries with slings - by Joakim - 11-22-2013, 12:39 AM
Legionaries with slings - by mcbishop - 11-22-2013, 07:13 AM
Legionaries with slings - by Ligus - 11-22-2013, 10:54 AM
Legionaries with slings - by Robert - 11-22-2013, 11:42 AM
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