Human remains found by workmen under a school playground could be those of a
16th-century pirate, according to archaeologists.
A facial reconstruction of the man, believed to have been in his fifties, has been created from the skull with the help of a forensic artist.
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The skeleton, uncovered at Victoria Primary School in Newhaven, Edinburgh, has been carbon dated to the 16th or 17th centuries.
The school, which is the city's oldest primary, is near Newhaven harbour where a gibbet once stood 600 years ago.
It is thought the man could have been executed for piracy or other crimes before being buried in a shallow, unmarked grave.
The condition of the bones and location of the burial close to the water and gibbet, rather than in nearby graveyards, suggests he was killed before being displayed to act as a deterrent to other pirates, said archaeologists.