06-07-2009, 07:07 AM
....the Newcastle sauroter cannot be from a sarissa. The 'winged' sauroter and joining tube have a diameter of around 39-40 mm, and even at this diameter a reconstruction by Connolly had natural bend.( see attached) The Newcastle sauroter has a diameter of 19-20 mm - typical of the dory but impossibly thin for a sarissa.....
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"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff