Jörg Sprave is filming in the same location Tod made his Giant Catapulta for a TV production , and it's still there! We take a tour and discuss collaborations.

The original TV show this was made for is available here    • Beat The Ancestors: Roman War Weapon ...  

NOTE: The Romans would have call this a "Cataputla" and it shoots spears/arrows.
If it shot rocks they would have called it a "Ballista".

Confusingly in Medieval Europe a "Catapult" would shoot stones or round shot, but this is a "CatapulTA"

According to the Roman author Vitruvius Catapulta were made in three sizes
1 span catapulta (also called a Scorpion), 2 and 3 span. Each based on a multiple of the previous size.

This "Catapulta" is a "6 span" design (or it would be if the Romans ever built one that big) so it is twice as big at the largest Roman (3 span) machines

For further reading, I recommend searching for the Greek and Roman Artillery treatise by "Marsden et al.



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