In January and February of 2014, severe weather eroded a low section of ground and brought two disarticulated human bones into the open air, projecting eight to ten centimetres from the exposed face. They had been lying, undisturbed and unrecorded, within an existing midden, the kind of ancient accumulation of shells, bones, and domestic refuse that coastal communities left behind over generations of settlement and subsistence living.

The bones sit close to a dense deposit of shell material, one projecting from around forty centimetres below the original ground surface, the other roughly fifteen centimetres further south and somewhat deeper at sixty centimetres down. Their precise relationship to the midden, and whether the burial was placed deliberately within it or simply came to rest nearby over time, remains an open question. What is clear is that Cruach Na Cara was not unique in giving up its dead that winter. The same storms revealed previously unrecorded burials at two other nearby locations, suggesting that the coastline here may contain further human remains still concealed beneath the surface, waiting on the next season of rough weather to make themselves known.