Two thousand years of silence, broken by rabbits, and then by the careful work of scientists who looked at old bones with new eyes.

That is the Loch Borralie story.

It is not a comfortable story, and it is not a complete one.

But it is a real one — documented, verified, and genuinely illuminating about who people were and what they did in the far north of Scotland at the beginning of the common era.

The stones held the secret.

The science read it.

The mystery of what it meant endures.