article_snippet: In 2009, archaeologists from York Archaeological Trust uncovered a skull with the jaw and two vertebrae still attached to the jaw, in Heslington, York.
article_snippet: a skull was found face-down in a pit without any evidence of what had happened to the rest of the body.
article_snippet: At first, archaeologists thought archaeologists had found a normal skull and a normal skull was not until the bones were cleaned that archaeologists came across 'something loose' inside.
article_snippet: a skull was found face-down in a pit without any evidence of what had happened to the rest of the bodythe body.
article_snippet: Here, Dr O'Conner examines the remains .
article_snippet: ’s body almost immediately after the man was killed and buried in a pit dug in wet clay-rich ground.
article_snippet: Speaking two years ago, Sonia O'Connor, research fellow in archaeological sciences at the University of Bradford, said: 'The hydrated state of the brain and the lack of evidence for putrefaction suggests that burial, in the fine-grained, anoxic sediments of the pit, occurred very rapidly after death.
article_snippet: Speaking two years ago, Sonia O'Connor, research fellow in archaeological sciences at the University of Bradfordthe University of BradfordBradford, said: 'The hydrated state of the brain (pictured) and the lack of evidence for putrefaction suggests that burial, in the fine-grained, anoxic sediments of the pit, occurred very rapidly after death' '
article_snippet: Experts believe the head was cut from the larger mystery’s body almost immediately after the larger mystery was killed and buried in a pit dug in wet clay-rich ground.
article_snippet: In 2009, archaeologists from York Archaeological Trust uncovered the skull with the jaw and two vertebrae still attached to the jaw, in Heslington, York, (marked on this map) the skull was found face-down in a pit without any evidence of what had happened to the rest of ’s body.
article_snippet: Speaking two years ago, Sonia O'Connor, research fellow in archaeological sciences at the University of Bradford, said: 'It is rare to be able to suggest the cause of death for skeletonised human remains of archaeological origin. '
highlights_snippet: Brain was found inside a severed skull buried in Heslington, York, in 2009 .
  