Given that she was interred in a peat bog, in what was likely an unconsecrated grave, she may have been a murder victim or a suicide. Oldcroghan Man fits the classic profile of an Iron Age bog body.

She said the young woman's fate was not untypical of finds from the era. "As is the case for so many Iron Age bog bodies, the young woman suffered a highly violent death which involved the flow of ...

Ancient human remains discovered in peatland in County Londonderry in 2023 are now thought to be those of a young woman who died more than two millennia ago. She is believed to have been killed as ...

Ms Baker said it showed "that the individual had been intentionally decapitated at the bog". During the discovery in 2023, no skull was recovered with the remains. "It was likely that that was taken ...

"As is the case for so many Iron Age bog bodies, the young woman suffered a highly violent death which involved the flow of blood from her throat followed by decapitation," Eileen Murphy ...

A Bog Body Mystery, an intriguing new exhibition opening at The Manchester Museum on 19 April 2008. Lindow Man, one of the British Museum’s most popular exhibits, is on loan for a year, along with ...

Iron Age Celts lived here before and after ... While a digger was moving soil in a peat bog in Cheshire, he saw a man’s body buried deep in the peat. The worker was shocked and called the ...