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Peter Snow and Ralph Grimston met a grisly end atop York’s Micklegate Bar.

The pair were last seen gazing down at passers-by in the street below. Their severed heads had been attached to spikes.

Since that gruesome day, their faces have not been seen for more than 400 years.

They will be given a proper burial later this month.

The unfortunate men were arrested in Yorkshire in May 1598 and taken to York to be executed. Their only "crime" was Catholicism.

Four centuries later, after their skulls were found near Tadcaster, forensic experts from Dundee University have used computer software to reconstruct their faces.

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