Britain's only prehistoric mummies came out of a South Uist field

Excavations at Cladh Hallan, near Daliburgh, ran from 1988 to 2002 and uncovered a row of three Bronze Age roundhouses built around 1080 to 1020 BC. Beneath the floors were four burials that turned out to be something never found elsewhere in Britain: deliberately mummified bodies. The bodies had been placed in a peat bog long enough to preserve them, then brought back out and buried under the houses, where they may have stayed above ground for generations first. Analysis later showed the skeletons were assembled from the bones of more than one person. It is the only place in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found.