My mother had this piece of bog oak on her patio for years but gave it to me a while back, so now it sits on our patio. As the name suggests, it's simply a piece of an oak tree that was pulled from a peat bog some years ago. It stands about 3 feet tall and I guess it's quite an age, having been preserved in the ground. Anyway, it's a very nice thing but I have struggled to take a decent shot of it. The light was good the other day though and since I had the 'Blad with me I wasted a frame on it:
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An interesting piece of wood and not a waste of film. I've heard of bog butter and even ancient bodies that come out of the bogs. Along with swords and so on. Any of that sort of thing in your area?
ReplyDeleteThanks. Big butter is a new one for me! There are things dug up from time to time - the Bann Disc is probably the best known. It’s an Iron Age artefact. Oh, and the Broighter Gold hoard was another.
DeleteThose finds were both some time ago. I’d imagine there’s a lot more to discover - like around the Mountsandel Fort area, supposedly the oldest settlement in Ireland. I don’t think there are any organised digs, though. I’m not unhappy about that in a way - another early settlement, Newgrange, just across the border, now has a multimillion pound visitor centre. I prefer a walk through undeveloped sites using my own imagination to think about the activities that went on a few thousand years ago.
Bog butter of course…damned autocorrect !
DeleteBig Butter is watching you! I agree that undeveloped sites are often superior.
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