{"id":16536,"date":"2016-06-21T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16536"},"modified":"2016-06-21T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:00:11","slug":"ancient-military-history-the-romans-secret-terror-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/21\/ancient-military-history-the-romans-secret-terror-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Military History: The Romans Secret &#8220;Terror Weapon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16537\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/weapon-of-the-romans.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Weapon-of-the-Romans\" width=\"620\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Archeologists have unearthed a set of Roman lead sling bullets which were used against the barbarian foes in Scotland. The bullets were found to make a piercing whistle noise when hurled through the air, a sound thought to have been used to strike terror in their enemies 1,800 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article published recently by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55050-whistling-sling-bullets-from-roman-battle-found.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LiveScience<\/a>, the bullets were discovered at Burnswark Hill in southwestern Scotland. The find was made during the excavation of a field where a massive attack of the Roman army took a place in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> century AD.<\/p>\n<p>The excavation work was led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trimontium.org.uk\/wb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Reid of the Trimontium Trust<\/a>, a Scottish historical society which is directing the first major archaeological investigation of Burnswark Hill site in 50 years. The bullets weigh about 1 ounce (30 grams) and had been drilled with a 0.2-inch (5 millimeters) hole. The researchers believe that it was designed to give the soaring bullets a sharp buzzing or whistling noise in flight, making them what they called a real &#8221;terror weapon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>John Reid said to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55050-whistling-sling-bullets-from-roman-battle-found.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LiveScience<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You don&#8217;t just have these silent but deadly bullets flying over; you&#8217;ve got a sound effect coming off them that would keep the defenders&#8217; heads down. Every army likes an edge over its opponents, so this was an ingenious edge on the permutation of sling bullets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/news-history-archaeology\/evidence-found-secret-terror-weapon-romans-006088?nopaging=1\">Ancient-Origins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Archeologists have unearthed a set of Roman lead sling bullets which were used against the barbarian foes in Scotland. The bullets were found to make a piercing whistle noise when hurled through the air, a sound thought to have been used to strike terror in their enemies 1,800 years ago. According to an article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3647,5938,1898,24],"tags":[4199,763,12392,12393,12394],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}