EHG352 - Excavation - Loch Borralie

As part of the Historic Scotland Human Remains Call Off Contract, GUARD undertook an archaeological excavation in July 2000 at the location of a find spot of a human skull from a cairn at Loch Borralie, Sutherland. The remains of two inhumations were recovered beneath the cairn. The burials indicated that the cairn was probably multi-phase and may date to the second half of the first millenium AD. A trench, measuring 2.1 x 2m was hand excavated and, where present, turf and topsoil were removed and the stone work beneath revealed before planning. The human matrix of the cairn was then excavated to establish whether human remains were present. <1>