The legend goes even further that suggests that, sometime after 1684, the wind blew the head from its display at Westminster Abbey and it was picked up and taken by an English soldier. Beyond that, it is claimed that it was passed down, generation-to-generation, until it was laid to rest at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge (The Economist). This suggestion could very well be true. Jonathan Fitzgibbons addresses it, and confirms that the head that ended up in Cambridge was actually Cromwell’s, thanks to the forensic science of the recent decades. According to The Economist, the embalming and examining of the head before the burial of the head that should be Cromwell’s is almost exactly matches the measurements of the head found in the college. The tale of the skull from then until now is a long and winding road, and one could even go as far as to call it a wild goose
The legend goes even further that suggests that, sometime after 1684, the wind blew the head from its display at Westminster Abbey and it was picked up and taken by an English soldier. Beyond that, it is claimed that it was passed down, generation-to-generation, until it was laid to rest at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge (The Economist). This suggestion could very well be true. Jonathan Fitzgibbons addresses it, and confirms that the head that ended up in Cambridge was actually Cromwell’s, thanks to the forensic science of the recent decades. According to The Economist, the embalming and examining of the head before the burial of the head that should be Cromwell’s is almost exactly matches the measurements of the head found in the college. The tale of the skull from then until now is a long and winding road, and one could even go as far as to call it a wild goose