Hear about the latest research on this iconic international phenomenon, through the lens of a ‘cold case’ piece of forensic archaeology on Manchester’s bog head, known as Worsley man.
In this talk, Melanie will discuss how our ideas about both bog bodies and bogs have been shaped by centuries of prejudice about this extraordinary landscapes. Using the Iron Age archaeology, she will encourage us to think differently about these places and what they may have meant to later prehistoric communities, whilst situating Worsley man and his fate within the turbulent world of Roman conquest in the north.
