Homecoming for Indigenous remains and shell necklace

Indigenous remains and a rare necklace have been returned to Tasmania from universities in the UK. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

After more than 170 years at a Scottish university, the remains of a young Aboriginal man who was killed on his Country have returned home. 

The skull of the unknown man was taken from Tasmania in the 1830s and had been held by the University of Aberdeen since the early 1850s.