VISITORS TO the McManus Galleries, Dundee, may soon be able to read about the life and death of a person whose skeleton has been on display in the Pict area of the archaeology gallery for quite a number of years.

Little is known about the individual whose skeleton, excavated from a long cist cemetery in Lundin Links, Fife, has been carbon dated between the fifth and seventh centuries AD.

Soon, thanks to a collaboration between the Dundee City Council galleries and the Unit of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at Dundee University, we may learn more about the life he or she led and gain a much more extensive understanding of this person and the time in which he/she lived as well as helping create a vivid story by bringing history to life.

The remains are to be examined by Dr Tim Thompson, lecturer in Forensic Anthropology.

He said, “By carefully examining these skeletal remains, we aim to determine the biological sex, the approximate age at the point of death and the stature of this person.”

The forensic examination will take place between this month and July and, as part of the Who We Are—Dundee’s 21st Century Museum Project, the university will be given some more interesting archaeological mysteries to solve.

Councillor Charles Farquhar said, “It will be interesting to find out more about the life of this individual from early Tayside.”