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unusual facts about peat bog



Ask and Embla

Two wooden figures—the Braak Bog Figures—of "more than human height" were unearthed from a peat bog at Braak in Schleswig, Germany.

Faddan More Psalter

The Faddan More Psalter (also Irish Bog Psalter or "Faddan Mor Psalter") is an early medieval Christian psalter or text of the book of Psalms, discovered in a peat bog in July 2006, in the townland of Faddan More in north County Tipperary, Ireland.


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Braak Bog Figures

The Braak Bog Figures are two wooden figures discovered in 1947 in a peat bog in Braak, Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany.

Bud Wolfe

Roland 'Bud' Wolfe January 12, 1918 - January 28, 1994, was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on November 30, 1941.

Frederick VI of Denmark

After the discovery of the Haraldskær Woman in a peat bog in Jutland in the year 1835, Frederick VI ordered a royal interment in an elaborately carved sarcophagus for the Iron Age mummy, decreeing it to be the body of Queen Gunnhild.

Oxborough Dirk

It was found in 1988 protruding from a peat bog near Oxborough, Norfolk, where it had been deposited point down.