not unique because at Skara Brae in Jan 1901 "A tremendous sea came over the banks ...exposing a great lot of the old buildings below the brae and ...the under midden". the words of... Mr William G.T. Watt, in a letter to J.W.Cursiter at whose request he visited the place and found the midden was about 100 feet long, 3 feet deep in the centre, tapering to each end and almost entirely composed of the bones of Bos ...chiefly jaws and horn cores. In March 1903 high seas washed away the midden but revealed building below it built on the rock..."
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