What a hat and comb found in a peat bank tell us about a 300-year-old murder - Newly unveiled artefacts paint a picture of a ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

Port Ellen, a historic distillery on Islay, is renowned for its return after years of closure, while The Flow Country, the ...

Kinder Mountain Resue Team said it was called out to reports a woman had become stuck up to her thighs in a peat bog on the ...

What exactly is bog snorkelling? The clue is in the name, but basically participants swim along a water-filled trench that has been cut into a peat bog – using a snorkel and face mask to breathe ...

The personal belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog, have gone on display on the Isle of ...

The bog covers an area the size of England and is thought to contain billions of tonnes of peat. It's believed the peat-layer reaches up to 7m beneath the ground. Scientists say investigating the ...

Archaeologists have often been treated to nearly intact glimpses into the past thanks to the preservative qualities of blanket bogs. This particular skillset is the reason behind the formation of peat ...

Archaeologists have often been treated to nearly intact glimpses into the past thanks to the preservative qualities of blanket bogs. This particular skillset is the reason behind the formation of peat ...

The story of a man found in a peat bog over 2,000 years ago, wearing only a fox fur arm band, is told in Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery, an intriguing new exhibition opening at The Manchester Museum ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

According to a predictive model developed by a CNRS researcher and his European colleagues, the microalgae present in peat ...