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Face of medieval knight reconstructed by computers

Seeded on Thu May 20, 2010 9:34 AM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: Telegraph
health, archaeology, forensics, stirling-castle
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The mysterious skeleton was uncovered along with nine other people's remains underneath a chapel at Stirling Castle in 1997.
It is not known whether the man, who was killed during Scotland's Wars of Independence, is English, Scottish or even French, due to the fact the castle changed hands several times.

But a team at Dundee University have used state-of-the-art techniques to construct a computer image of what he may have looked like, and hope to be able to uncover more details about his origins.

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Perry O

Tests revealed that the warrior was about 5ft 7in and in his twenties when he died, and that he was "a very strong and fit nobleman, with the physique of a professional rugby player".

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Reply#1 - Thu May 20, 2010 9:37 AM EDT
kaviaq

Nice reconstruction. I went to school with Jo Buckberry (one of the bio-archaeologists in the article). It is amazing what you can tell about a person's life from their skeleton.

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#1.1 - Thu May 20, 2010 3:44 PM EDT
David Boddie

Now they need to take one of those MMORPG character design programs and mix him up with about two dozen different hair styles... :D

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#1.2 - Thu May 20, 2010 11:26 PM EDT
kaviaq

He does kind of look like the Barbarians in EverQuest!

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#1.3 - Fri May 21, 2010 5:09 PM EDT
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