Thracian Lancers presentation uploaded

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Hi, you are thinking of "The Alexandrovo Tomb and other Recent Discoveries", Christopher Webber, Slingshot 216, July 2001, pp 47-50 which is also at http://home.exetel.com.au/thrace/tombs.htm (choose the Alexandrovo tomb). There's also a knobly spear in a Pella mosaic. Sorry I will have to update the links to the pictures as the pictures on the web page are not linked properly.

When I was in Bulgaria, I saw a man working on some thin pine logs that looked exactly like these knobbly spear shafts - cleaning off all the knobbly bits was the last step in turning the thin tree trunks into wooden poles. I think the other explanations such as hawthorn etc are more likely.