User:Ritchie333/Lord Clyde, Deal
The Lord Clyde is a public house in Deal, Kent.[1]
The pub opened in the early 1860s, and is named after Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde.[2] In 1963, the new owners discovered a human skull stored under crates and boxes, with a note saying it belonged to the Indian mutineer Alum Bheg[3][4] who was killed in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.[5] The lower jaw was missing and the remaining teeth were loose.[6] Though the identity of the skull has not been comprehensively proven, it was reported by the Natural History Museum as belonging to an Indian male who died around age 30 in the mid-19th century.[4]
References[edit]
Citations
- ^ Tubbs, Douglas (1966). Kent pubs. Batsford. p. 112.
- ^ Wagner 2018, p. 223.
- ^ "1857 through the eyes of a skull". New Indian Express. 7 April 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ a b "What a skull in an English pub says about India's 1857 mutiny". BBC News. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ Woolf, Christopher (February 27, 2018). "The story behind the skull found in a London pub". Public Radio International. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ^ Wagner 2018, p. xix.
Sources
- Wagner, Kim (2018). The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-190-87023-2.