01-05-2008, 02:02 AM
Aha, you have me there - I wasn't actually present when the cheiroballistra was tested. I am pretty sure though that the bolt would have been shot at a fairly level trajectory. That is how we would expect such a machine to have been used much of the time. I will have a look at the relevant copy of JRMES over the weekend to see what was actually done (it's about three years since I last had a look at it). I know that measuring instruments have been used with our machines to check the speed of the bolts but I don't know what the results were. I believe that that was during the filming we did for 'What the Romans did for us'.
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