Forensic scientists exhume the contents of a coffin in a bid to solve a 250-year-old mystery
- 5 years ago
Forensic scientists have started to exhume the contents of a coffin in a bid to solve the 250-year-old mystery about the final resting place of a Highlands clan chief.
Forensic scientist Dame Sue Black is to study what are said to be the remains of Simon Fraser, nicknamed the Old Fox, the 11th Lord Lovat.
According to the official account after being beheaded in 1747, Lord Lovat's body was buried under the floor of a chapel at the Tower of London.
Forensic scientist Dame Sue Black is to study what are said to be the remains of Simon Fraser, nicknamed the Old Fox, the 11th Lord Lovat.
According to the official account after being beheaded in 1747, Lord Lovat's body was buried under the floor of a chapel at the Tower of London.