Farmer goes home after 5000 years

22 July 1999

Farmer goes home after 5000 years

A SCOTTISH farmer is finally returning home after 5000 years away – although his head is staying in Glasgow.

The skull of the Neolithic farmer was kept at Glasgow Universitys Hunterian Museum after being found in a cairn on the Isle of Arran in 1900.

A model of the farmer will going on display at the Isle of Arran Heritage Museum while the original stays at the Hunterian.

• The Times 22/07/99 page 11
  
• The Independent 22/07/99 page 7
  
• The Guardian 22/07/99 page 7