A centuries-old Highland tale of forbidden love, warfare and a legendary curse will be brought into the modern spotlight this September when true crime style investigation meets medieval mystery.
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Let us tell you of a story that's been handed down through generations.
One that connects the Clan Grant to their land and tells us of the beginning of a dynasty.
A legend that begins as a love story and ends in bloody murder and fatal folly.
And let us tell you of a gruesome memento, cursed to remain in the hands of the family who have ruled in Strathspey for hundreds of years.
Join us as we breathe new life into this tale and discover what truths lie beneath the Legend of the Highland Skull...
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Dan Cottam - Grantown Museum Curator:
It's not every day, as the curator of Grantown Museum in the Scottish Highlands, I come across a skull When a descendant of the Clan Grant chiefs showed me one his family had passed down through generations, it was the start of a quest that would come to occupy my every thought.
Lord Reidhaven:
I was told that it was the chieftain of a clan. So the important thing was to be in absolutely no doubt that the authentication is correct
Dan Cottam - Grantown Museum Curator:
I'm Dan Cottam, and this is The Legend of the Highland Skull, a four-part podcast series where I uncover the secrets of a macabre family heirloom and a legend attached to it.
Isobella Hubbard - Storyteller:
A forbidden love affair set in medieval Scotland, a lawless place ruled by different clan powers.
Dan Cottam - Grantown Museum Curator:
Each week, I try to find out more clues as to whether the skull really is who the Grant family think it is.
Cat Irving - Surgeon's Hall Museum Human Remains Conservator:
The top of the skull, the calvaria, has been sawn off, and at the back it's got this little hinge, so you would've been able to flip the top of this skull open.
Dan Cottam - Grantown Museum Curator:
I'll speak to human remains conservators and specialists in forensic archeology.
Dr Sam Leggett - University of Edinburgh:
The radioactive isotope of carbon decays over time, and so when we see how much is left in a bit of bone, we can basically backdate to the last time that thing was living.
Dan Cottam - Grantown Museum Curator:
I'll explore the violent and precarious legend of one head, two lovers, and three Scottish Highland clans: the Grants, the MacGregors, and the Comyns. And along the way, I'll reveal what a skull and an ancient story can tell us about Scottish Highland life in medieval times, and our changing attitudes to human remains through the ages. Hit subscribe so you don't miss a single episode.
