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highly praised and little readhannah@posts.rat.pictures
Oct 19, 2026, 2:17 PM
@overholt i remember going down a rabbit hole about this once and there are a bunch of theories of varying crackpotitude about what happened there https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/2/2*.html https://saxonhistory.co.uk/roman/ptolemy-scotland
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sailboatsailboat@mastodon.scot
Oct 19, 2026, 3:21 PM
@hannah @overholt explaining this ancient weirdness was one of the good things i got out of graham robb's "the discovery of middle earth," an otherwise silly book about ley lines being real (?!)
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