“Strange things happen in the bog.” – Redux

[Image from RTÉ report] Prehistoric human remains found partially buried in a leather bag in a bog near Portlaoise, County Laois, by Bord na Móna workers yesterday are believed to be the over 2,000 year-old body of a sacrificial victim, possibly a young woman.  Here’s a 2007 National Geographic article on Iron Age Europe’s bog bodies.  And from today’s Irish Times report Mr [Eamonn] Kelly [keeper at the National Museum’s Irish antiquities division] said the body would initially have been buried at a considerable depth. …

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