The Unanswered Questions That Matter Most

Having laid out what is known and what can be inferred from the Loch Borralie evidence, it is worth being explicit about what remains genuinely unknown — not because the researchers failed to establish it, but because the evidence simply does not contain the answers.

We do not know how this woman died.

The fracture at the base of her skull might be the cause of death, or it might have been produced immediately after death as part of the post-mortem processing.

The evidence cannot distinguish these scenarios.