The Bog People - Part 1

I love history. I couldn't resist putting this up. The exhibition runs through May 2005.

[snip] We visited 'The Mysterious Bog People' exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester the day after we had visited a number of prehistoric sites in North Wales. The fact that we had just seen some of the great monuments built by people contemporary with those human beings exhibited in the show gave it more weight, more meaning and somehow more reverence.

One of the most powerful exhibits to me were a pair of plaits of hair which had been put on a piece of wood and deposited into the bog at Odoorn, NL. In December, we visited Odoorn to see the hunebed [megalithic tomb] there...