The unique environment of peat bogs — low oxygen ... Archaeologists Uncover Iron Age Remains In A Northern Irish Bog In ...
For countless centuries Irish peat land (bog land) has covered much of rural Ireland and every farmer and almost every family had their own turf bank. Irish Turf was and still is, dug from the ...
THE gruesome mystery of a 2,000-year-old headless woman found in an Irish bog has finally been uncovered by scientists. Evidence suggests the Ballymacombs More Woman "suffered a highly violent death." ...
Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...
In the middle of an Irish peat bog, the inexplicable remains of a humpback whale are discovered by two rural women. Drawn into the mystery of how and why it has appeared, they soon realise the ...
Research into Iron Age bog bodies by the National Museum of Ireland has shown human sacrifices were likely connected to sovereignty and kinship rituals. Speaking to the Irish Examiner in 2011 ...