The Origins of Armoured Theft

There's an element of ritualized anglo scottish war built into reaving culture. It is linked to southern families who generally are smaller landowners, not great magnates but prominent local families such as the armstrongs. There probably was a dimension of anglo scotish conflict, sometimes very markedly so. But there's also just quite a lot of armed theft, because they often think they can get away with it. And they can. Again, we can exaggerate the levels of violence. We can also exaggerate the concept of the debatable land sees.