Highland Games
... Those having witnessed a Scottish hammer throw at a Highland Games will be a little more enlightened, as this implement more closely resembles the working sledge hammer which is. ... There have been attempts to link the sport with the roth-cleas or wheel feat of the ancient Irish Tailteann Games (1829 B. ... The description of the throwing of a chariot spoke by the hero Cuchulain at the Tailteann Games by spinning around and releasing it is certainly not far off of later descriptions of bar and hammer throwing. ... The Cotswold Olimpick Games, held between 1612 and 1852 includes sledge hammer throwing, with a throw of 100 feet 3 1/2 inches being recorded without run and follow. ... These two distinct origins are manifested today in the Highland games with the persistence of light (16 pound) and heavy (22 pound) hammers. ... This hammer was introduced into the second modern Olympic games in i900. ... , London; 1980 Redmond, Gerald, The Caledonian Games in Nineteenth-Century America, Associated University Presses, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1971 Shearman, Montague, Athletics and Football, Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Duke of Beaufort, ed. ... , 1887 Webster, David, Scottish Highland Games, Reprographia, Edinburgh, Scotland