IT TAKES all sorts and some people like to collect skulls.

Perhaps it makes a change from stamps, although storing the grisly objects must be a problem.

One such collector struck lucky, if that's the word, after an imitation skull bought from the York Dungeon turned out to be real after all.

Now the dungeon has issued an urgent plea requesting the return of their accidentally sold cranium.

The skull had been at the tourist attraction since 1986 and was one of a pair.

Maybe the other one is starting to feel lonely.

Updated: 10:25 Tuesday, October 01, 2002