Brain was found inside a severed skull buried in York , Heslington , in 2009 . Since then it has been carbon dated and examined by experts . They believe it was preserved because it was buried in sealed clay pit . Fats and proteins linked together to form a mass of complex molecules too . Archaeologists believe the Iron Age man died a violent death .
Brain was found inside a severed skull buried in Heslington , York , in 2009 . Since then it has been carbon dated and examined by experts . They believe it was preserved because it was buried in sealed clay pit . Fats and proteins linked together to form a mass of complex molecules too . Archaeologists believe the Iron Age man died a violent death .