The UK Coastguard was informed and requested the launch of the Invergordon RNLI Lifeboat. The Coastguard rescue helicopter from Inverness was scrambled and the Inverness, Cromarty and Portmahomack Coastguard Rescue Teams were sent to the
The human remains were discovered during the excavations of the Pictish monastic site which were carried out for a number of years until 2007 at Tarbat Church in Portmahomack. Specialists have been able to investigate about 178 skeletons found