Mon, 29 Oct 2007

What's the Latin word for haggis?

A second-century Roman tombstone has been discovered near Carberry in Musselburgh, East Lothian, east of Edinburgh. (Is that the right way to specify a town? Here in the States we'd just give Town Name, State.)

Coverage in The Scotsman here and here; there's a small picture of the tombstone in the BBC report. Here's a website devoted to Romans in Scotland.


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