Late Roman Missile Weapons: Spiculums, Angons, & the B1 Spears

The Late Roman Army used mulitple types of missile weapons, from javelins to bows to what may have been an early version of the crossbow. In this video, we examine two of those: the spiculum, and the angon. SOURCES: The Late Roman Army, Dixon & Southern Warfare in late Antiquity, Lee Romano-Byzantine Military Equipment, Stephenson