hist-games: Re: hist-games-digest V1 #14

[David Salley]

> Football - anyone like to postulate what you could use for a period 
> "ball" - besides a victims head?

> I believe the most common ball at the time was a pig's bladder- although
> this could be hard to come by as well.......

> Cheers 
> Lachlan 

A pig's bladder stuffed with straw.  Check out "Pleasures and Pastimes in 
Medieval England." by Barnes and Noble Press.  Look it up under "Gameball".

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