Archaeologists find 2,500-year-old human remains, likely a teenage male, in a bog in Co. Derry, near poet Seamus Heaney's birthplace.

Archaeologists from the Police Service of Northern Ireland discovered human remains up to 2,500 years old in a bog in Co. Derry. Believed to be from a male aged between 13 and 17 at the time of death, the remains were found on peatland in Bellaghy and later subjected to carbon dating by Queen's University Belfast. The area where the remains were found is close to where Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney was born, who was known for writing about bog bodies in his poetry.

January 25, 2024
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