It is almost impossible to believe: until a few years ago, academics drunk at a British university on festive occasions of a human skull-cell. An archaeologist now reveals where the skull could come from.
Family members of the Worcester high schools in the British Oxford and their guests regularly drank out of the cup in the formal dinner until 2015, as the archaeologist then tells the newspaper “The Guardian”.
Sweets of the skull-kelch
At one point the cup – made from a sawn and polished brain scale with a silver edge and stand – had become leak and you could no longer drink wine from it, Hicks reports. Then sweets were served in the container until the students and guests no longer felt at ease and the Kelch ritual ended.
Can be a slave skull
But where did the chalice come from? The archaeologist suspects that the approximately 225 -year -old skull that could be of a Caribbean slave. The size of the skull would speak for this. But Hicks found no evidence of a specific person. On behalf of the university, he investigated the origin of the skull. In his book “Every Monument Will Fall”, the archaeologist now writes about the “shameful story of the skull”.
Name Engraved in Kelch
The story of the Skull Kitchen in Great Britain, on the other hand, is well documented. In 1946 a former student of the University donated the cup. His name-george Pitt-Revers-IS is engraved in the ship. PITT-RIVERS had the cup of a private collection of his grandfather.
This in turn bought the ship in 1884. Hicks said that the seller could have received his father’s skull during the auction. He was a British soldier in the Caribbean. According to the silver stamp on the chalice, the ship was produced in 1838.
Ten years not used
A spokesperson for the Worcester high schools told “The Guardian” that De Kelk “sometimes exhibited in the 20th century, together with the Silver Collection of the College and used as service.” However, after 2011 this was seriously limited, “and the container was completely removed ten years ago,” he assured. The cup must now be kept “respectfully and permanently” in the archive.
Source: Krone
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