Researchers from the University of Bradford have createda high - resolution digital modelof Sculptor ’s Cave in Moray , northerly Scotland , so that anyone , anywhere can explore the ancient site without stepping foot outside their planetary house . All you necessitate is an cyberspace connection .

The cave has a deep and grisly past – archeologist consider it was used as a nitty-gritty point for complex funerary rites . Human remains , predominantly those of children , have been found at the site alongside fragments of pottery , ring money , and   jewelry . The bones have been traced to theLate Bronze AgeandEarly Iron Age .

" The bodies are left to decompose by nature … and we ’ve dumbfound meter reading that bones were clean , we ’ve obtain evidence of cutting and polishing on some of the ivory , " Ian Armit , professor of archeology at the University of Bradford , toldLive Science .   " So we think people last back and visited these bones . "

And it beget dark . Remains dating back to advertizement 250 intimate that some of the bodies were killed in the cave itself , with at least six mass beheaded . Armit believe this is grounds of an executing , butchery , or sacrifice .

The 3D model carry an sinful amount of detail , even bring out the fine carvings that mark the cave ’s entrance – hence the name Sculptor ’s Cave . Engraved on the wall ,   there are star , a   atomic number 23 cast , and even a admonition ( " cursed be they yt hinder " ) among other thing .

Archeologists have dated the engraving to a time around 500 advertising and believe they were the workplace of a group of multitude called The Picts . The Picts , refer to as the Picti by the Romans ( Latin for " Painted People " ) , were a   confederation of tribes that existed in Dark Age Scotland , but had vanished by the end of the first millennia .

" We surmise that   [ the carvings ] might be to do with a sort of a commemoration of the cave , or even a kind of symbolic shutdown of the cave , and the fact that they ’re at the entrance   – so they could be pronounce ' go back , this is a unsafe place , keep out , ' or they could be trying to claim possession of it in some agency , " Armit toldLive Science .

Rebecca Jones , top dog of archaeology & world heritage at Historic Environment Scotland , articulate in astatement :   “ It ’s great to see the modelling of Sculptors Cave at completion stage . It ’s such a valuable resourcefulness as the cave can often be difficult to access . "