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We need to think in terms of developing best practice for excavating future bog bodies, drawing on contemporary approaches to investigating homicides, writes Rosie Everett, Benjamin Gearey, and Karl Harrison

THREE men have been convicted for conspiring to steal historic York stone from Tatton Park, causing more than £30,000 of damage.

THREE men have been convicted for conspiring to steal historic York stone from Tatton Park, causing more than £30,000 of damage.

Total carbon, total nitrogen, the chemistry and microbiology changes that go on with the drying out of that peat area. and what if it is continuing to dry out? what does that mean for the archaeological remains? its catastrophe. as those peat areas dry out, it changes the chemistry, which then impacts on the artefacts underneath that peat level. say it how it is — they rot away, dont they? they will disappear. we will lose our heritage. and climate change isntjust putting archaeological treasu...

Some 22,500 prized Roman treasure sites scattered across the UK in the peatlands might be lost forever due to climate change, warn archaeologists cited by the BBC.

The peatlands along Hadrian’s Wall and elsewhere in the UK are drying up as climate change advances and this is alarming archaeologists looking for perishable artifacts.

Peat bogs do not fully decay due to the lack of oxygen, but are vulnerable to changes in weather and are now at risk of disappearing

Our ability to understand of Britain's history is at risk, warn archaeologists.

Our ability to understand of Britain's history is at risk, warn archaeologists.

If peatlands across Britain keep drying out, ‘we will lose our heritage’, archaeologists have warned.