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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ye i mean super-duper cereally: who said it wasn't the carver's intention to make it so very unclear that a child's fantasy can turn it into whatever animal it wants. It's a multifunctional children's toy

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Hasn't anyone on that excavation team ever played Valheim? This is clearly a boar.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a boar to me Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

+1 vote for boar πŸ—

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to imagine no one could guess what it was back then too and maybe bumming out the carver lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sven: Man, Olaf, that’s a great cow!

Olaf (blinking away tears): thanks. (sobbing quietly): it’s a bear.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Team Dog, especially with that tail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

the tail is what makes me say dog too.
otherwise boar or cow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm team pig. Fight me!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm just gonna go with it's whatever the Pictish beast was so that it's a double mystery. Maybe it was carved by a someone captured in a raid or something

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Team Dog!!!!

Man's best friend, clearly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can they clean it off a bit? It looks like one of the mud cookies my sister used to make when she was 3.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The story has a pic of it post-cleaning

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It’s clearly a chicken

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

its a bear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Clearly a miniature dhorsig

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

"And it was a baby ox!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It's obviously a jellyfish with a cyst.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I polled the family, the all say it's a pig. End of discussion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It’s a bear, or a pig/boar.