The mystery at Loch Borralie is real.

Its resolution, if it comes at all, will come incrementally, through the patient accumulation of evidence and the careful application of analytical methods to the questions the discovery has made newly possible.

Until then: the lake is still there.

The cairn is still there.

And the questions — about what she meant to her community, about what was done in her name, about what the people of Iron Age Sutherland understood about their dead — are still there too.

— ABSOLUTE FINAL END —