guy Posted February 29 Report Share Posted February 29 Roman defensive spikes have been uncovered during excavations in Bad Ems of a 1st century Roman fort. The spikes were placed in ditches around the fort. https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/02/roman-defensive-spikes-unveiled-at-the-leibniz-centre-for-archaeology/150840 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guidoLaMoto Posted March 2 Report Share Posted March 2 Nasty and effective defense tool still in use in modern times The VC in Viet Nam rigged booby traps with spikes of bamboo that produced wounds causing Staph abscesses. Roman legionnaires each carried two sudes- 6 ft long wooden stakes-- to be used in constructing valles or used as defensive spikes. When Cincinnatus was recruited while plowing his field just across the Tiber and the Campus Martius to be dictator, he ordered his new conscriptees to each carry bring along 12 sudes-.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudis_(stake)#:~:text=The sudis ( pl. %3A sudes,were carried by each soldies. The metal spikes found represent a technological advance 500 years after Cinncinatus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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