Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Re-enactors with reconstructions of plumbata, lead-weighted darts which replaced javelins in the Late Roman Army (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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Yes, they are basically weaponized lawn darts

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[–] PugJesus 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You walk into a toy company's division for new toy development in the 20th century, and it's just a bunch of guys looking at ancient weapons