A nearly 2,000-year-old carefully constructed stone-lined burial containing the remains of a woman has been discovered at a quarry in Sutherland, Scotland, revealing an unexpected glimpse of life and death at that time. Archaeologists from Highland Archaeological Services(HAS) discovered Evelix, near Dornoch, while carrying out work ahead of a planned quarry expansion. The grave was found within an area where evidence of ancient settlement has also been identified, including features that may once have supported timber roundhouses. What caught the archaeologists’ attention was the unusual quality of the stonework. The structure was so neatly built that, at first, the team wondered whether it could have been modern. Instead, the construction style and archaeological evidence pointed towards the Iron Age, with the woman apparently having remained undisturbed for centuries beneath the ground.
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