That’s a manbearpig
I’m super cereal!
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
Hasn’t anyone on that excavation team ever played Valheim? This is clearly a boar.
It’s a boar to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+1 vote for boar 🐗
I’d like to imagine no one could guess what it was back then too and maybe bumming out the carver lol
Sven: Man, Olaf, that’s a great cow!
Olaf (blinking away tears): thanks. (sobbing quietly): it’s a bear.
Team Dog, especially with that tail.
the tail is what makes me say dog too.
otherwise boar or cow
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
I’m team pig. Fight me!
Team Dog!!!
Man’s best friend, clearly
Can they clean it off a bit? It looks like one of the mud cookies my sister used to make when she was 3.
The story has a pic of it post-cleaning
It’s clearly a chicken
It’s obviously a jellyfish with a cyst.
its a bear.
“And it was a baby ox!”
Clearly a miniature dhorsig
I polled the family, the all say it’s a pig. End of discussion
