Members of the public will come face to face with Anglo-Saxon royalty when the reconstructed head of a sixth century princess goes on display at Cirencester's Corinium Museum on September 15.
Facial anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson from the University of Manchester has spent two years working on the complex wax reconstruction, known as 'Mrs Getty' after the oil tycoon, because she was found buried with more than 500 individual pieces of jewellery and ornamentation.
The body of the ancient princess, aged between 26 and 30, was discovered at a Saxon burial site in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, along with more than 200 others in 1985.
· Pictures courtesy of Corinium Museum, Cirencester
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