Co. Londonderry bog body reidentified as an Iron Age woman

Co. Londonderry bog body reidentified as an Iron Age woman

Human remains that were discovered in peatland at Ballymacombs More in Northern Ireland have been reidentified as belonging to an Iron Age woman who was possibly the victim of a sacrificial rite. When a bog body was discovered by machine workers in 2023, it was initially interpreted as the remains of a teenage boy. However,…