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Iron Age Scottish burial brain removal, bone shaping

Published 10 June 2026

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of complex and rare funerary rituals, including the possible removal of a woman's brain and the shaping of her bones into points, at an Iron Age burial site in northwest Scotland.

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