hughjamton
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I metal detect, we find a lot of these dating back to the Romans.
I metal detect, we find a lot of these dating back to the Romans.
I've not found one...yet! Found a few fibulas and trumpet brooches but Roman is a bit thin on the ground round here...or too deep!I metal detect, we find a lot of these dating back to the Romans.
They went to North Wales but didn't stay long, they didn't like the fact that the pubs shut on a Sunday.I've not found one...yet! Found a few fibulas and trumpet brooches but Roman is a bit thin on the ground round here...or too deep!
Careful, those busses end up in sinkholes in Norwich!
We used to make them from bamboo as there was an abundance of it in a stately home with a big woods we roamed,Dutch arrows was what we called them .Anyone make a throwing arrow? Basically a dart,straight stick,fibreglass was better. You split one end and put some flights in it then whittled a groove around the shaft just under the flights. You then took a length of string with a knot in the end and wrapped the string into the groove,trapping it on the knot then pulled it tight down to the pointy end. You then threw the arrow but kept hold of the string, propelling it into the air. They went "miles"..but were a bit dangerous!
Done the same though we tied string to ours so you could retrieve them.We used to do the same by scraping match heads and filling the gap, if one of the bolts threads stripped they used to fly many many feet, we knew how to have fun back in the day and no one lost a finger (i think)
I see it's available again, or maybe it didn't go away ?Old Jamaica is my favourite chocolate!
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