Was it an act of reverence or of violence or of something that doesn’t translate cleanly into either category?

And why, in the spare and exposed landscape of Iron Age Sutherland, was one woman’s body subjected to an elaborate sequence of post-mortem treatment that has no direct equivalent anywhere else in the archaeological record of Britain?

None of these questions have simple answers.

Some of them have no answers at all.

But the evidence from Loch Borralie is real, and it opens a window into a dimension of Iron Age life in Britain that conventional archaeology had not previously been able to see.

The Place and Its Prehistory