Mysterious ‘UNICORN' skull found near King Arthur's castle – but is it a freak animal or a hoax?
Tourist John Goodwin dug it up after spotting the long horn sticking out of moss on the edge of a Cornish cliff.
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When he pulled it free, he found a skull with a single tusk in the middle of its forehead — like the mythical creature.
John, a plumber from Canada was near Tintagel — the supposed site of King Arthur's Camelot castle — with wife Val and their daughter.
He found the skull at St Nectan's Glen, a spot considered to be sacred.
John, 46, said: 'The hairs on my arm stood up when I pulled it out.
'I was in this magical place full of folklore and came across this item.
'There was moss at the edge of the cliff and something poking out of it. It looked like a horn and I kept tugging on it.
" It was grown in there, it wasn't like someone put it there last weekend. It looked properly old.'
John, in the UK to celebrate his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, took the curious object to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in nearby Boscastle but they refused to take it.
He left it at The Stonehenge Inn, in Durrington, Wilts, on the way back to Heathrow.
John said: 'I showed it to the barman and he offered me unlimited ales for the skull.
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"Between me and my wife, we had seven or eight and then we left the skull there.'
Unicorns appeared in Arthurian legend and are Scotland's national animal. But it is thought the skull is either a freak animal or a hoax.
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