interesting read !!

[GrahamL]

Bit ,o, Diesel and a new battery and good as new :)

http://www.diving.ee/articles/art035.html

[ballaratdragons]

Wow!

That was a very interesting read. Thanks for posting the link.

Geez, that peat sure does preserve good.

[GrahamL]

Yeah come think of it ken , I remeber reading a story of a well preserved womans body being found in a peat bog in the UK many years back , A husband wracked with guilt went to police and confessed
to killing his wife.. the remains were found to be hundreds of years old.

[ballaratdragons]

Yeah, I remember stories of bodies being pulled from Peat Bogs totally preserved.

Cool huh!

[blink138]

wasnt it cheddar man that was found about ten years ago in the bogs who was dated to about ten thousand years old an his genetic family were still living in the nearest village to were he was unearthed?
that is truly amazing!
pat

[ballaratdragons]

Nah, wasn't Cheddar Man.
He was a complete skeleton found in a cave.

But as for Peat Bog bodies, some famous ones are Tollund Man in Denmark, from around 400 BC and found in 1950 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tollundmannen.jpg and
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/bog/

Grauballe Man: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/bog/ and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grauballemanden_stor.jpg

and stacks more like Borremose Woman, Windeby Woman, Elling Woman, Kayhausen Boy, Conycaven Man etc.

All good reading.

[Ric]

Peat bogs are amazing things that's for sure.