[bgill]

The skull was lodged in a clay vase and rolled out when they removed a bundle of sticks and clay from it.

Sounds more ancient than something put there in recent years.

[stormer]

Kind of what I thought. In northern Europe peat cutters occasionally find some guy. The bodies are so well preserved from the nature of the environment, the cops show up expecting a homocide. They end up with some 1000 year old human sacrifice. Probably should get an anthropologist on the horn.