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Note: contains footage of human remains.The remains of two Bronze Age people found in a long-lost burial chamber by a farmer ploughing a field are revealing their secrets at Scotland’s new facility for storing and researching archaeological human remains.The cist on the Isle of Bute was first discovered before 1863 when a human skull was removed and sent to the Society of Antiquaries of London.However, the site was then forgotten about and lay undisturbed until a farmer came across it while ploughing in 2022 and human remains were found.

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00:00It's a kiss that had been forgotten about.
00:28It had actually previously been excavated in the 1800s when a skull was recovered and sent to London.
00:38At the time other remains were noted still in the ground but they were left.
00:44The skull unfortunately has now been lost but rediscovery and re-excavation of these remains is allowing us to reinterpret and retell the story of this individual.
00:57This individual.
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