The bodies in the bogs

A Blast From The Past

Bog pool beneath Errigal Mountain, County Donegal, Ireland. Photo by Gareth McCormack, reproduced with permission –clicking the image takes you to Gareth’s site and more evocativelandscape photography.

In an ancient bog at the foot of a fairy-haunted hill, peat-cutting worklays barethe bodyof a giant. Carbon dating suggeststhat the man died at the height ofthe Iron Age, around275 B.C.; forensic examination shows that he died hard, stabbed through alung and then decapi...