The answer to this question might illuminate whether the treatment was about individual status, specific circumstances of death, age, sex, or some other factor that cannot be inferred from the physical evidence alone.

How widespread were these practices?

The DNA evidence of long-distance social networks suggests that practices associated with these networks may have been distributed across a wider area than the single Loch Borralie site.

But the preservation record in most of Britain is too poor to allow the comparative analysis that would answer this question directly.

How does this evidence fit within the broader Iron Age British treatment of the dead?

The existing literature on Iron Age British funerary practice is rich, but the Loch Borralie evidence represents a category of evidence that had not previously been documented.