Meeting the Bog Bodies

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• 1. Discovering the bog bodies
• 2. National Museum of Ireland
• 3. Examining the bodies
• 4. Dramatising the past
• 5. Filming the reconstruction
• 6. The bodies in context
• 7. Unlocking secrets of the Iron Age
• 8. Preserving Oldcroghan Man
• 9. Clonycavan Man
• 10. Find out more
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Unlocking secrets of the Iron Age

It's a big surprise for us. Although no artefacts were discovered with our recent bog bodies, there is documented evidence of offerings such as bridle bits, horse harnesses, bog butter (offerings of butter buried in the peat) and other items being placed on tribal or royal boundaries which are not associated with settlements.

Furthermore, Ned has looked at Bronze Age practice and found a similar pattern of artefacts being placed on boundaries.

'What started as a relationship between the museum and Timewatch will end up having major international repercussions in the archaeology world'

'The work on the bog bodies has unlocked the secrets of the Iron Age in Ireland,' he says.

What started as a relationship between the museum and Timewatch will end up having major international repercussions in the archaeology world.

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Published: 2006-01-12