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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? it's 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, don't they? they will disappear. we will lose our heritage. and climate change isn'tjust putting archaeological treasures at risk at sites like this, the roman fort of vindolanda just along hadrian's wall. there are...
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.