Now this is a face that so easily could be staring at you from across the bar in a Highgate pub, a pint of London pride in his hand.
The face and the ball that did him in
This is the facial reconstruction of a man exhumed from a 400-year-old grave.
He is also the face of America’s first whodunit.
For you see when they dug him up, archaeologists found a musket ball embedded in his leg.
But recently this murder mystery was solved and you can read about it here.
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I was working in the field school the summer they found him. I’m not sure if he is still at the APVA museum or the Smithsonian.