An Iron Age human skeleton with some unsettling modifications was discovered inside a stone cairn on what is now Scotland's north-western coast.

The female individual’s brain was removed after her death, but her remains were carefully reassembled for her interment.

In the late 1990s, rabbits digging burrows in a remote corner of northern Scotland stumbled upon something extraordinary: a human skull buried beneath a pile of stones near Loch…

An Iron Age human skeleton with some unsettling modifications was discovered inside a stone cairn on what is now Scotland's north-western coast.