Giant Slab of Bog Butter Recovered in Ireland

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-22 07:28:15 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:20:46 1 week ago

Giant Slab of Bog Butter Recovered in Ireland
Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 17, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 09/21/2024 11:59:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland's northwestern coastline, according to a report in The Irish News. Bog butter is dairy or animal fat that has been placed in cool, oxygen-poor peat in order to preserve it, or perhaps as a gift to the gods. "The bogs would have acted as a cool place, almost like a refrigerator and the butter would have stayed there until it was retrieved by the farmer, or perhaps in this case the local community, and then subsequently was lost for one reason or another," said archaeologist Paula Harvey, who examined the site where the butter was found. She said that the farmer, Michael Boyle, and his companion stopped digging when they spotted the unusual object. "He got a very distinct smell of a cheesy butter from it and quickly realized that it was butter," Harvey explained. A small piece of wood was found on the mass, suggesting that it may have been placed in a box that has since decomposed. The butter is currently being analyzed at the National Museum of Ireland.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bogbutter; fartyshadesofgreen; godsgravesglyphs; ireland

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1 posted on 09/21/2024 11:59:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 09/22/2024 12:00:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

3 posted on 09/22/2024 12:01:17 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)

To: Ciaphas Cain

Hey, we’ll all soon be spreading Bug Butter on our imitation bread if the veganazis get their way.

4 posted on 09/22/2024 12:04:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

Butter and bacon....food of the gods....

5 posted on 09/22/2024 12:15:38 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)

To: SunkenCiv

[A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds]

Just need about 250 pounds of bog dinner rolls now.

6 posted on 09/22/2024 12:20:35 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)

To: SunkenCiv

I can’t believe it’s not butter.

7 posted on 09/22/2024 12:21:45 AM PDT by SpaceBar

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