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Lead slingshot (glandes)

Tracey Rihll

Journal of Roman Archaeology, Volume: 22, Pages: 146 - 169

Swansea University Author: Tracey Rihll

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Previous studies of these artefacts have usually passed over in silence many methodological problems and issues that attend them. Typically they have proposed generalizations based on small or very small samples, and these ill-founded generalizations then find their way into the wider literature and...

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Published in: Journal of Roman Archaeology
ISSN: 1047-7594
Published: Journal of Roman Archaeology 2009
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