Old sculpted head discovered by the student at the excavation of the Scottish island

A undergraduate student was surprised after an old finely sculpted old head was deployed during a recent excavation – and seemed to smile at him.

The discovery, made in Skaill Farm on the Scottish island of Rousay, was announced by the Archeology Institute of the University of Highlands and Islands (UHI) on July 24. The site is part of a long -term research project from the Institute.

Student Katie Joss worked along a trench wall when the head “looked at her”, according to the university.

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The photos of the excavation show the head with curly hair and a slight smile, imperturbable by his missing nose.

In a press release, Sarah Jane Gibbon, the UHI archeology professor, described the discovery of “so exciting discovery”.

A sculpted sandstone head with curly hair and a slight smile was determined at Skaill Farm, a research project for Highlands and Islands. (Dan Lee / Uhi Archeology Institute)

“The carved head is rich and red sandstone, with yellow inclusions, which has probably been extracted from the island of Eday and which is the same as the molded fragments of the old parish church of St. Mary’s nearby,” noted the expert.

The exact age and the use of the head remain a mystery, although Gibbon said that his presence suggests that there was once a “building of splendor” in the region.

“This is something you expect to find on an ecclesiastical site, not a farm.”

Dan Lee, archaeologist and researcher at Uhi Orkney, told Fox News Digital that the discovery was “very unusual”.

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“We do not know any other example in orcades,” he said. “This is something you expect to find on an ecclesiastical site, not a farm.”

Lee thinks that the head came from St. Mary’s Kirk and is medieval in nature.

If it is true, the artefact shows that the church was probably “very finely built and high status”.

The student in archeology, Katie Joss, on the right, discovered while working on a trench wall on site. The discovery was announced at the end of July. (Dan Lee / Uhi Archeology Institute)

“You would not expect this kind of high quality sculpture in a farm, and we have found no red sandstone integrated into the main walls of farm buildings,” said Lee.

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The head is also very well preserved, suggesting that it had been sheltered inside.

“It does not seem to have been damaged, with the exception of the tip of the broken nose, but this can have occurred before it is deposited in a layer of later rubble,” observed the archaeologist.

The discovery adds to a growing collection of steel fragments recovered from the Skaill Farm project. (Dan Lee / Uhi Archeology Institute)

“Stone preserves well in the ground, so it is not surprising that it has of course survived. You can see the individual chisel marks where it was sculpted.”

Lee added that the head is one of the many red sandstone artifacts finely carved in Skaill, like a column capital – but it is always a first of its kind.

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“But we didn’t look like the human form, so it’s unique!” he said.

Scotland has a long history of human colony, and the discovery of Skaill is only one of the many new discoveries.

The recent discovery is part of the current research at Skaill Farm, led by the UHI Archeology Institute. (Dan Lee / Uhi Archeology Institute)

On Sanday, another of the Orcades Islands, a warship linked to the American revolution Was discovered on a beach by a schoolboy.

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A prehistoric village has also recently been discovered near Inverness, Scotland, on the site of a future golf course.