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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
After a civilian reported seeing human bones sticking out of a peat bog in Northern Ireland, police went to investigate the discovery. There, they found a well-preserved skeleton of a teenage boy with portions of
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Nicknamed the "Bellaghy Boy," he was likely between 13 and 17 when he died around 500 B.C.E.