Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World
The Ancients
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Do We Have Any Evidence That These Tombs Were Reused?
Most of the tombs are in petey land and so bone doesn't survive particularly well. It's possible that it was just a representative bit of somebody's body that went in there, or it may have been that one person was buried in there. We don't really know how that worked because we don't have the abundance of bones surviving. Do we have any idea where the majority were buried? Or is that one thing that's just lost to Shetland's prehistory?
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