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At last, proof that the British once drank from human skulls

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Click to view If you saw stirring Roman-Briton bromance The Eagle over the past week, you know that in fiction, at least, the Picts were pretty hardcore. But now there’s proof that the early tribes of Britain were bloodthirsty warriors. As you can see in this BBC clip, there is now evidence that they drank from human skulls.

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