Ancient Celtic peoples buried butter in bogs as an offering to the fae...

13.2K Likes, 107 Comments. TikTok video from Dressler (@dresslerparsons): “Ancient Celtic peoples buried butter in bogs as an offering to ...

I Can't Believe It's Butter That Was Buried in a Bog! - Atlas Obscura

For thousands of years people have been burying butter under the spongy surface of boglands, where organic matter doesn't rot as it does ...

Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs? - Amusing Planet

Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to ...

A Brief History of Bog Butter - Smithsonian Magazine

Looking at over 274 instances of bog butter from the Iron Age to medieval times, Earwood concluded that early Celtic people probably sunk the ...

The Story of Bog Butter. By John Dolan | offalyhistoryblog

The Middle Ages in Ireland were troubled times so butter may have been buried for security and supply reasons. It is possible that butter may ...

The Folklore of Butter - Killererin Heritage Group

Sylvester Cassidy, first published in Out and About in Killererin, 2007 · Fairies and Witchcraft · Wells merited special care at May time. · May ...

Bog butter - Restoring Mayberry

So people dig up many things from the past in the bog and meant to come back for -- necklaces, coins, tools, swords, 1,200-year-old prayer-books ...

What ancient secrets lie beneath this little-known Irish bog?

Treasures found have included religious chalices, hordes of gold, a medieval psalter, 2,000-year-old “bog butter” (chunks of butter made from ...

The secrets of Ireland's bogs

Secrets of Ireland's boglands. From ancient bog bodies to buried ... On the other hand, the butter might have been a votive offering. Or, quite ...

(Irish Folklore) The Mystery of Bog Butter

Given the value of agricultural products, it's very likely that these were also intentionally deposited. Given the fact that ancient Ireland was very much an ...

Irish Bogs- Nature, Poetry and Art - The Student Explorer

Carbon radio dating has allowed archaeologists to date some samples of a preserved “bog butter” unearthed from the darkness to as early as 375 BCE. The same ...

The bodies in the bogs - by Mike Dash

A smashed keg of bog butter, found in an Irish bog and dating to around 310 A.D. Hundreds of bog butter finds have been made; archaeologists ...

I Can't Believe It's (Bog) Butter! - The Marginal Snail

For thousands of years, people in Ireland and Scotland buried butter in peat bogs. The mystery is: why? We currently have over 430 examples ...

Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

Besides, there's also the odd business of bog butter. Bodies weren't the only things that ended up in the bogs of Northern Europe. Along with wooden and bronze ...

2000-year-old lump of butter found in Irish bog - CNN

In medieval times, butter was used to pay rent and taxes, and offered as gifts to spirits. Cavan County ...

The Good Neighbors: Fairies in an Irish and Scottish Cultural Context

Milk might be thrown in the air for the fairies or butter buried near a bog as an offering to them (O hOgain, 1995). At holy days, it was also a custom to offer ...

Why ancient butter keeps turning up in Irish bogs - CSMonitor.com

The stuff is exactly what it sounds like: blocks of cow's-milk butter buried in a bog thousands of years ago, and typically stored in a ...

10kgs of 2,000-year-old butter found in a bog in Ireland to go ... - BBC

In medieval Ireland they did a lot of burying in bogs as they have excellent preservation properties because of their low temperatures, low ...

Ancient Bog Butter – Dublin, Ireland - Gastro Obscura

Other theories argue that people buried the butter as an offering to the gods or as a method of protecting important stores from thieves and ...

Love, Luck & Irish Butter - Zingerman's Roadhouse

Ireland was unlike any place else I'd ever been; life, I learned, was a complex overlay of ancient Celtic culture and English post colonialism.