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I'm not surprised that they could, I'm more surprised that they wanted to.

• kwhitefoot 2y ago
  What else was there to do? There was no Internet, no television, no football (perhaps), no books, no broadcast radio. I'm only half joking.
  • alserio 2y ago
    Maybe someone was "visiting" Scotland, and decided that it would look good in their backyard
    • deepsun 2y ago
      Yea, ancients had a certain taste for decorations. For example in Assyria, to get an audience with their king Ashurbanipal, I believe, one had to go through a corridor full of heads of king's defeated enemies. We often forget how violent past was. It was extremely hard to live to adulthood without killing anyone.
• dboreham 2y ago
  See also: Stone of Scone.
  • alserio 2y ago
    Fascinating but also a lot more portable