06-03-2009, 06:56 PM
Quote: This shape implies that the cylindrical part is there to support the shapft and that the spike is solid. Noone said it's like this.But who would expect the oposite!
I agree completely that this is a natural assumption- I used to think so myself before reading about them being hollow and the "sockett" just a collar. What the collar adds is worth considering. I wish I had thought to post something on the topic before this. What you guys found is still very interesting because I would not have imagined that they were hollow almost all the way to the point! I wonder how this effects the strength of the sauroter as a putative weapon. Hollow tubes general tend to lose strength as the diameter expands. (this is why insects have hollow tubes for bones and you don't)
Any chance the void was filled with something that is now lost- like lead?
Paul M. Bardunias
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