Iron Age remains found in bog may have been sacrificial
Ancient human remains discovered in peatland in County Londonderry in 2023 are now thought to be those of a young woman who ...
Ballymacombs More Woman: Iron Age decapitated remains found in a Northern Ireland bog
Archaeologists found the remains of a young woman believed to have lived over 2,000 years ago during the Iron Age in County ...
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Bellaghy bog body was woman who had head cut off in possible iron age ritual, say experts
Ritual human sacrifice has been identified in ancient bog bodies found elsewhere in Ireland. Old Croghan Man, found in Co ...
2,000-year-old decapitated body found in Northern Ireland bog may have been sacrificed
Initial excavations found bones from the arms, legs, fingers and breastbone, police said. Because the body had been well ...
Ancient remains discovered in Co Derry bog ‘likely to belong to young woman’ who died violently
Ancient human remains uncovered in a Co Derry bog are believed to belong to a young woman who lived over 2,000 years ago and ...
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Iron Age remains found in bog may have been sacrificial
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 ...
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Decapitated woman found in Irish bog is 2,000-year-old ritual sacrifice
"As is the case for so many Iron Age bog bodies, the young woman suffered a highly violent death which involved the flow of ...
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Iron Age remains found in bog may have been sacrificial
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 ...
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2,000-Year-Old Bog Body Found In Northern Ireland Was A Young Woman Who Was Decapitated In A Presumed Ritual Sacrifice
In October 2023, police in Northern Ireland uncovered a disturbing set of human remains in a bog just outside of Bellaghy.
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Ballymacombs More Woman: Iron Age decapitated remains found in a Northern Ireland bog
"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," said Murphy ...