Following The Ancestors….
by Bernie Bell - 08:43 on 25 August 2025
Following The Ancestors….
Readers of m’blog might remember this…..
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17404
A replica skull and images of the reconstructed heads are now in St. Ninian’s, Wednesday and Sunday, until the end of August, so we thought we’d follow the Ancestors by going for a walk at Newark Bay, where we visited the site, but only looking at it from below….
….as the public are advised not to go onto the archaeology, which is very vulnerable and unstable…..
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17038
Then back along the beach, into the car, and on to St. Ninian’s, where we encountered replicas of how the skull of one of the individuals was re-constructed…..
Note the distortion in stage two – this will have come about whilst the skull was lying in its grave over the centuries. This shows the same individual when the reproduction head was completed…
And, with added facial hair….
We moved on to the Newark Heads displayed on-screen. Firstly, the Scandinavian man…
…as his image transitioned….
And became complete..…
Then the Pictish woman…
Transitioning…
And completed…
These models were part of Stephen Johnsons Degree show, MSc Forensic Art & Facial Imagery, University of Dundee 2023.
And finally, a note of thanks and appreciation…
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