Mysteries of bog butter uncovered

Mysteries of bog butter uncovered - Nature

The 'bog butter' is the remains of both dairy products and meat encased in the peat, say Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol and colleagues.

Giant Slab of Bog Butter Recovered in Ireland - Archaeology Magazine

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near ...

A Brief History of Bog Butter - Smithsonian Magazine

The cool, low-oxygen, high acid environment of the bog made a perfect natural refrigerator. Seeing as butter was a valuable commodity and was ...

(Irish Folklore) The Mystery of Bog Butter

For those of you who don't know what bog butter is, it's a kind of wax-like organic material often discovered around Ireland (mostly in peat bogs) although ...

Irish farmer finds near 60-pound slab of ancient bog butter

Boyle was conducting work on his farm in County Donegal, when he found what turned out to be an ancient slab of bog butter. In ancient times, ...

Secret of bog butter finally unearthed | Science - The Guardian

The origin of a mysterious substance dubbed bog butter found lurking in Celtic bogs has been pinpointed by scientists.

Irish Farmer Digs Up 50-Pound Slab Of Centuries-Old Bog Butter

Micheál Boyle dug up the 50-pound slab of bog butter, which he said he found "just by pure luck" on his Donegal, Ireland farm.

Bog Butter Barrels and Ireland's 3000-Year-Old Refrigerators

The secret is the anaerobic nature of the bog. Without oxygen, neither the butter nor its wooden container decompose. Curiously, some wooden ...

Bronze Age Irish 'Bog Butter' Is Actually Made From Dairy, Study Finds

Among the more ubiquitous artifacts found in Irish bogs is “bog butter”—yellow, waxy globs of fat that were carefully wrapped in wooden ...

Bog Butter - Unearthing Irish History

Buried deep in the peat, they've been preserved for hundreds and hundreds of years. In County Offaly in 2011, a cask was unearthed that ...

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 ... found bog body, which dates ...

"Bog Butter": 13.5kgs of butter next to the wooden keg that once ...

To date, over 500 lumps of butter have been found in the peat bogs of Ireland, often found desposited in the wooden kegs or churns they were stored in.

Bog butter - Wikipedia

Bog butter is an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Likely an old method of making and preserving ...

3,000-year-old butter discovered in Ireland - NBC News

The butter was found by peat workers John Fitzharris and Martin Lane, who spotted it as they harrowed the Gilltown bog in County Kildare, ...

I Can't Believe It's 3,000-Year-Old Butter! - Forbes

Bog butter was originally documented in the 17th century. The white/yellow waxy lumps are typically found when peat cutters harvest the decayed ...

A Massive, 2,000-Year-Old Chunk of Butter Has Been Unearthed ...

Videos by VICE ... One Jack Conway—a turf or peat cutter—made a startling discovery in Emlagh bog earlier this month whilst cutting some turf. As ...

2000-year-old bog butter unearthed in Co Meath - The Irish Times

A prehistoric 10kg lump of bog butter thought to have been a gift to the gods has been found by turf cutters.

Bog butter born from bacteria-free centuries in a swamp

The oldest bog butter that's been found so far was a 100 pound blob dating back close to 5,000 years. It was noted for smelling like butter, but ...

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 ...

News - “Bog Butter” Unearthed in Ireland's County Meath

COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND—A lump of waxy “bog butter” thought to be about 2,000 years old was unearthed 12 feet below the surface in Emlagh Bog ...