A skull found in a duck pond that sparked a massive potential police murder inquiry has turned out to have belonged to a Roman — and is about 2,000 years old.
The skull was found by a passer-by at the pond in Pear Tree Lane in Fulstow, Louth, before Lincolnshire Police attended the scene to carry out further investigations on June 16 this year. At the time, large tents were erected whilst forensic teams carried out a thorough examination of the scene.
According to an article in June this year which appeared on the Grimsby Live news website, investigators examined the area in an effort to try to establish any link with people on the Missing Persons Register. There was also work by pathologists to try to match it with DNA lists kept by the National Crime Agency of people known to be missing.
