Archaeologists have found the remains of what could be Britain's oldest surviving human brain.
The team, excavating a York University site, discovered a skull containing a yellow substance which scans showed to be shrunken, but brain-shaped.
Brains consist of fatty tissue which microbes in the soil would absorb, so neurologists believe the find could be some kind of fossilised brain.
The skull was found in an area first farmed more than 2,000 years ago.
The brain matter can be seen as a dark area at the top of the brain.
''There is something unusual in the way the brain has been treated, or something that it's been exposed to that has preserved the shape of it.
"York Hospital neurologist"
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