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I’m sure it was accidental at first, but eventually they found out bogs were great at preserving things. There are plenty of records of people putting food in bogs to preserve them.

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Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Didn’t someone find perfectly good butter in a bog from a few hundred years ago?

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- drdiddlybadger@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Would you eat toast that had been buttered with the bog butter?
  
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  - Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Honestly, depends on the smell. But I’d probably try a bite
    
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    Oszilloraptor@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    I’d probably take a bite a day after they took a bite
    
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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
More on preservation in bogs here:

nytimes.com/…/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html

edition.cnn.com/2024/03/20/europe/…/index.html

The full site report can be found here, lots of pics. Scroll to bottom for pdfs.

www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/must-farm-volumes

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