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EXPERTS have recreated the face of a 17th century Scottish soldier – and he’s a dead ringer for Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall.
He was brought back to life in incredible detail using the skull of one of the men who was imprisoned and died in Durham following the bloody Battle of Dunbar in 1650.
He is shown wearing a blue bonnet, brown jacket and shirt typical of Scottish soldiers – looking just like If You Don’t Know Me By Now star Hucknall.
The work on Skeleton 22 was done by Durham University and Face Lab, a team based at Liverpool John Moores University, who previously reconstructed the faces of Robert the Bruce, Richard III and St Nicholas.
Professor Caroline Wilkinson of Face Lab said the project “enabled us to draw on scans and data to create the most accurate and lifelike image possible to enable a true glimpse into the past of this Scottish soldier”.
The skeleton showed the man was 18 to 25, had suffered periods of poor nutrition in childhood and lived in south-west Scotland. It was among those found in the centre of Durham in 2013.
Analysis concluded they were those of Scottish Covenanter soldiers taken prisoner after the Battle of Dunbar, one of the most brutal battles of the civil wars in the three kingdoms.
Afterwards, thousands of soldiers loyal to Charles II after the execution of Charles I were marched 110 miles to England by Oliver Cromwell’s forces.