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- The Guardian Thursday 15 Aug ust 2019
(^8) National
▼ Hilda, whose skull was found on
the Isle of Lewis, is remarkable for
apparently having lived into her 60s
PHOTOGRAPH: UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE/PA
▲ Karen Fleming, the MSc student
who reconstructed Hilda’s face
Hilda the iron age druid
reconstructed in wax
PA Media
A student has revealed the face of a
female druid from the iron age in a 3D
wax reconstruction. Karen Fleming,
an MSc forensic art student at the Uni-
versity of Dundee has recreated the
head of a woman, nicknamed Hilda,
believed to have been from Storno-
way on the Isle of Lewis. The work was
based around a skull at the University
of Edinburgh’s anatomical museum.
Believed to have been more than
60 years old when she died, Hilda is
depicted without teeth. Fleming said:
“It’s clear from the skull she was tooth-
less before she died, which isn’t too
surprising considering the diet of folk
back then, but it was impressive how
long she lived.
“A female’s life expectancy at this
time was roughly 31 years but it is now
thought that living longer during the
iron age is indicative of a privileged
background. It’s impossible to know
for sure when she died, as we were
unable to carbon date the skull.”
She could have died any time
between 55BC and 400AD and was
of Celtic origin. “I think she looks like
many older women I’ve met in my life
and I’m proud of that,” said Fleming.
The face will go on display at this year’s
masters show at Duncan of Jordan-
stone College of Art & Design.
Creating a wax reconstruction in the
summer months caused some prob-
lems. Fleming said: “ I had to keep parts
of Hilda, like her wax modelled ears,
in the fridge for most of the summer.
As a mature student who commutes
from Edinburgh, I often had to keep
her cool in the car, strapped up in the
passenger seat. I’m sure that’s a sight
passersby won’t forget seeing.”
Henry McDonald
Lawyers for a man from Northern Ire-
land who sued a bakery for refusing to
make a gay-themed cake are going to
the European court of human rights
to challenge a ruling that its Christian
owners had a right to refuse to bake it.
Ashers bakery told Gareth Lee in
2014 that they would not make a cake
with the message “Support Gay Mar-
riage” on it as it was contrary to their
beliefs. Four years later the supreme
court reversed earlier decisions at Bel-
fast county court and court of appeal
that Ashers had discriminated against
Lee on the grounds of him being gay.
Lee’s legal team are now arguing in
the ECHR that the supreme court rul-
ing should be overturned as baking the
cake did not imply “the bakery sup-
porting the message of the cake”.
Lee said: “I’d fi ght for the rights
of business owners to be able to hold
their own religious beliefs. But that’s
not what my case has ever been about.
This is about companies being able to
pick and choose which customers they
will serve. It’s a dangerous precedent.”
Gay cake case heads
to European court
of human rights
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