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Article: Crowe gift rams home friendship
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- Scotland on Sunday
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- October 4, 2009
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Gladiator star gives GBP 60,000 siege weapon from film set to
Scots battle re-enactor
WHEN a Hollywood giant wishes to bestow a gift on a friend they
usually favour fruit baskets, flowers or perhaps, in exceptional
circumstances, the keys to a gleaming new Cadillac.
Oscar-winning Russell Crowe, however, has never been the
conventional movie star, which is why he has presented Charlie
Allan, a Scots battle re-enactor, with a five-ton medieval battering
ram.
The replica siege engine, fresh from the set of Robin Hood, the
actor's latest GBP 100 million blockbuster, will next year take
pride of place outside Duncarron, an ambitious reconstruction of a
12th-century wooden fort being built in ...