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Roman Troops' Secret 'Terror Weapon' - 727Sky - 06-19-2016
It was a simpler time in many ways except for the dealing out of death. Weapons were short ranged for the most part and you actually looked your enemy in the eye as a dual of death proceeded.
Quote:Some 1,800 years ago, Roman troops used "whistling" sling bullets as a "terror weapon" against their barbarian foes, according to archaeologists who found the cast lead bullets at a site in Scotland.http://www.livescience.com/55050-whistling-sling-bullets-from-roman-battle-found.html
Weighing about 1 ounce (30 grams), each of the bullets had been drilled with a 0.2-inch (5 millimeters) hole that the researchers think was designed to give the soaring bullets a sharp buzzing or whistling noise in flight.
The bullets were found recently at Burnswark Hill in southwestern Scotland, where a massive Roman attack against native defenders in a hilltop fort took place in the second century A.D