Cramond Burial Bodies Could Be Dark Ages Nobles

Archaeologists have recreated the faces of skeletons found in a car park 40 years ago - and found they could be members of a noble family from the Dark Ages. The nine bodies, discovered in a mass burial site in Cramond, Edinburgh, in 1975, were initially thought to be victims of the mediaeval Black Death. The 1,500-year-old finds have raised the question of whether Cramond, believed to be the oldest occupied village in Scotland, was the site of a royal stronghold.