Links with the Past: Investigating the Life and Death of a Pictish Man

1,500 years ago a man was buried in a stone cist at Lundin Links cemetery, near Largo, in Fife. Preliminary examination of the man’s skull reveal he may have died violently. Find out about the Picts through the Museum’s collections, meet forensic scientists and learn about their work and what they have discovered about the man from Lundin Links Session 1: 11:00 -11:20 McManus: Curator’s tour of the Pictish material in Landscapes and Lives 11:30 -12:30 Collections Unit: Meet and talk with forensic scientists Session 2: 2:00 – 2:20 : McManus: Curator’s tour of the Pictish material in Landscapes and Lives 2:30 -3:30 : Collections Unit: Meet and talk with forensic scientists The project is a partnership between The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum (The McManus) the Edinburgh Unit for Forensic Anthropology Research group (EUFA) of the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and the University of Dundee’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID). This event has been made possible by a grant from the Art Fund. Free, but booking essential. Please phone 01382 30 7200

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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/sc000232?id=EVENT582273