[Elfsea] How Queen Boadicea stayed on the wagon

[Wilim Penbras]

Luv ya Pyro.  Here's the link I dragged up.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-212182,00.html

Ld Fathead, Esq.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Betsy Marshall" <betsy at softwareinnovation.com>
Reply-To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:02:57 -0600

>Aggh! where's the rest of it? or the link to click?
>thanks! Pyro
>
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>Behalf Of Ciarlariello, Keith W
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>
>London Times (02/19/02)
>
>     How Queen Boadicea stayed on the wagon
>
>     By Robin Young
>
>
>     ARCHAEOLOGISTS have finally discovered how Boadicea, the early British
>     warrior queen, managed to ride her chariot into battle without falling
>off it.
>
>     In previous reconstructions of Iron Age chariots as depicted on coins
>of the time,
>     passengers were unceremoniously bumped out of the cart as soon as it
>got up
>     any speed or hit rough ground.
>
>     Yesterday the British Museum was presented with a faithful replica that
>actually
>     worked, and to prove it the chariot was put through its paces in the
>Museum
>     forecourt and across its lawns.
>
>     It carried two passengers and was drawn by two diminutive horses. Iron
>Age
>     horses are known to have been the size of ponies.
>
>     The chariot, built by Robert Hurford, a wheelwright from Taunton,
>Somerset, is
>     based on finds from a newly excavated chariot burial at Wetwang, east
>Yorkshire.
>     A woman found in the grave has been referred to as "the Yorkshire
>Boadicea"
>     although no weapons were buried with her.
>
>     The secret of the chariot's rideability lies in two pairs of arches
>flexed at each side
>     of the cart. With his knowledge of horse-drawn vehicles, Mr Hurford
>realised that
>     these arches, which are shown on representations of chariots, were not
>a
>     decorative feature but an integral part of the vehicle's suspension
>system.
>
>     The arches, made of supple ash, each supported a Y-system of rawhide
>thongs
>     that helped the chariot, floored with a further flexible webbing of
>rawhide straps,
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