A view of the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Photo from Facebook

A skull that was reportedly found at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania turned out to belong to an Indian person from the Southwest.

The skull was part of a collection that was due to be auctioned last year. It was believed to have been from a soldier who fought at the famed Civil War battle in 1863.

But testing showed that it dated to 1300 and was from a young Indian man who probably lived in New Mexico or Arizona. No one knows how the skull ended up in another part of the country.

"The case is suspended, pending further information,” Ed Clark, the superintendent at Gettsburg, told The Washington Post. “There’s a lot of questions unanswered. . . . How it got to Pennsylvania is not something we know.”

The National Park Service and the Gettysburg Foundation, which "owns" the skull, are determining whether the they need to follow the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the park said on its blog.

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Gettysburg skull turns out to be that of a Southwest Native American 700 years old (The Washington Post 2/6)