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We were rummaging through our garage (rented house) earlier and found half a skull. It has latches on where the top of the skull obviously used to be but isn't. I'm 99% sure it's real. Is there any way of identifying anything about it, short of taking it to a natural history museum? Also just checking it's not illegal to have it
My Grandpa has a human skull (obviously 
He was a dentist and he saw it advertised in the back of the British Dental Journal.
He bought it and put a set of dentures in it. it already had the cranium sawn open with latches to hold the dome on.
He had quite a large collection of skulls. Dogs, cats, badger, hedgehog, various birds and a dolphin skull that he 'acquired' up in Scotland. He found a decomposing Dolphin on the beach, pulled the head off (with his bare hands) and went to put it in the car to take home. My gran threw a fit and he ended up putting it on the tow bar of their [PH mode] Bedford campervan [/PH mode] and wrapped it in a bin bag so as not to offend other road users. When he got it home he put it in the compost heap for 9 months. When he pulled it out it was perfectly clean.
He donated the collection a while back to Monkton Combe school, but he kept the human skull. It's a female skull and 'she' is called Matilda.
He was a dentist and he saw it advertised in the back of the British Dental Journal.
He bought it and put a set of dentures in it.
it already had the cranium sawn open with latches to hold the dome on.He had quite a large collection of skulls. Dogs, cats, badger, hedgehog, various birds and a dolphin skull that he 'acquired' up in Scotland. He found a decomposing Dolphin on the beach, pulled the head off (with his bare hands) and went to put it in the car to take home. My gran threw a fit and he ended up putting it on the tow bar of their [PH mode] Bedford campervan [/PH mode] and wrapped it in a bin bag so as not to offend other road users. When he got it home he put it in the compost heap for 9 months. When he pulled it out it was perfectly clean.
He donated the collection a while back to Monkton Combe school, but he kept the human skull. It's a female skull and 'she' is called Matilda.
I had one when a student. They are quite valuable now. Maybe get a few hundred quid for it.
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Or maybe a grand.
http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_variant.php?...
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Or maybe a grand.
http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_variant.php?...
Edited by Rollin on Sunday 10th October 18:44
I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig s
t, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.
Follow this advice and no more skulls in the garage.
t, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.Follow this advice and no more skulls in the garage.
I once found a human femur / thigh bone, handed it in to a site manager who at first though it was a prank (from my own personal "human remains for jokes" collection?) and he shoved it in a filing cabinet, and it was never spoken of again.
A bit of a shame, as I'd have liked to have kept it if Time Team weren't going to be called.
A bit of a shame, as I'd have liked to have kept it if Time Team weren't going to be called.
Mazda Baiter said:
My Grandpa has a human skull... He was a dentist and he saw it advertised in the back of the British Dental Journal.... He donated the collection a while back to Monkton Combe school, but he kept the human skull. It's a female skull and 'she' is called Matilda.
Must be a dentist thing. I have half a skull in the loft. He's called Charlie and came from an Anglo Saxon burial site.The skull pictured is probably a demo piece for anatomy.
TheEnd said:
I once found a human femur / thigh bone, handed it in to a site manager who at first though it was a prank (from my own personal "human remains for jokes" collection?) and he shoved it in a filing cabinet, and it was never spoken of again.
A bit of a shame, as I'd have liked to have kept it if Time Team weren't going to be called.
This could have been very important - A bit of a shame, as I'd have liked to have kept it if Time Team weren't going to be called.
a/ unsolved missing persons
b/ you stumbled on an unchartered archeological site
c/ you have disturbed the remains of an old cemetary and will now be cursed forever
either way your boss could be in a lot of trouble is this comes to light , doubtless he didn't want the project held back by six months by beardy old gits with trowels.
Out of interest were you in chalky soil that preserves bones well or ordinary soil , could give you some idea of the significance.
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