The reconstructed of a 1st or 2nd century Roman soldier is set to form the centrepiece of this season's exhibits in the Trimontium Museum in Melrose, Scotland.

The soldier’s skull was discovered 150 years by workers building the Waverley railway line near Trimontium (the Roman Fort at the foot of the three Eildon Hills) in the Scottish Borders.

He was found at the bottom of a well and died under suspicious circumstances as his skeleton was found 'erect or nearly so' with a spearhead by his side.

His reappearance was made possible by the enthusiasm of the local Trimontium Trust who gathered sponsorships and donations to fund the collaborative reconstruction of this Trimontium resident’s face.

The skull had been stored in the National Museum of Scotland and on its journey of reconstruction the electronic data for the skull travelled from Melrose to Wales where the University of Cardiff produced an exact replica of the skull.

Then Dr Caroline Wilkinson, medical artist at the University of Manchester put 'flesh' back on the bones’.

He will return at the end of March in substantial form to his Borders homeland.

Walter Elliot, chair of the Trimontium Trust, said: “We are very grateful to the many organisations which contributed funding for this reconstruction including the National Fund for Acquisitions; the local William Hill Trust; the Russell Trust and the Tweed Forum Heritage Lottery Fund.

“We hope that the public will come to see Trio Montanus Vertex, as we have named him, at the Trimontium Exhibition.