Uneasy consist the chief that wears a crown , but what about the body that ’s had its head stolen ? While Shakespeare might not have look at the latter , perhaps he should have : fit in to a new archeologic probe , the Bard ’s skull was probably stolen from his tomb by dangerous robbers sometime near the end of the 18thcentury .
While using background - penetrating radar to investigate the grave at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford as part of a documentary to air on the U.K. ’s Channel Four , a research team lead by an archaeologist from Staffordshire Universityfound“an rum disturbance at the head oddment ” of Shakespeare ’s grave . The disturbance , pair off with a virtually 140 - year - old report that trophy hunters made off with the author ’s skull in 1794 , was apparently enough to win over Staffordshire archeologist Kevin Colls that the great dramatist ’s pass is indeed missing .
“ We come across this very uneven , foreign matter at the head end , " CollstoldThe Guardian . “ It was very obvious , within all the data we were getting , that there was something different break down on at that exceptional post . We have concluded it is sign of the zodiac of mental disorder , of fabric being grok out and put back again . ”
An image ( below ) from the grave that seemingly evidence the spot in interrogative sentence was allow to The Guardian .
Image via Channel 4
" It ’s very , very convincing to me that his skull is n’t at Holy Trinity at all , ” Collstold the BBC .
Stealing headway from renowned corpses is n’t exactly a new thing ; in fact , if Shakespeare ’s oral sex is indeed missing , he’djoin the honored companyof other great artists like Beethoven and Mozart . What is far-famed is that the trophy hunters disregard thefamous cursemarking the Bard ’s grave :
Spooky , but plainly not terrifying enough for eighteenth century grave accent robber . One person sufficiently worried about the curse is Holy Trinity ’s vicar , Rev. Patrick Taylor , who told the BBC he ’s " not convinced that there is sufficient evidence to resolve that his skull has been taken . "
" We intend to retain to honor the sanctity of his grave accent , in accordance of rights with Shakespeare ’s wishes , and not allow it to be interrupt , " he order . " We shall have to survive with the mystery of not bonk fully what lies beneath the stone . "
