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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
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Britain may lose future 'Lindow Man' discoveries to damaged peat bogs, archaeologists warn Restoration projects to repair crucial peat bogs are becoming more common, but they don't always preserve archaeological heritage 15 May 2021 • 2:44pm Lindow Man is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England Credit: Universal History Archive Lindow Man is a national treasure admired by thousands at the British Museum. But stunning “bog body” discoveries may become a thing of the past as peat decline destroys our archaeolo...
New Film Shows How Tree Went From Oak to Boat in Iron Age Replica Project 14th December 2020 The replica logboat was modelled on the sunken boat that measures some 7.5m long, 0.61m wide and 0.4m deep. An oak tree’s transformation from trunk to replica iron age boat on Connemara's Lough Corrib has been filmed as part of a University College Cork (UCC) project. Entitled "A New Logboat for Lough Corrib: The Pallasboy Project", the film was made over 20 months and documents how the logboat was modelled on a 2,400-year-old vessel found at the bottom of Lough Corrib. The original was partially ...