Many curious items have been preserved in Irish Bogs; even complete human bodies. In 2009, another curious item was found by workers for a peat company: a 3,000 year old wooden barrel of butter! The butter is not actually butter any longer. It has been transformed into “adipocere”, a wax-like substance formed from animal fat. Adipocere is also known as mortuary wax or grave wax. Human body fat may also turn to adiposere under the right conditions: cold, humid and the absence of oxygen.
Irish Bogs
17 Monday Mar 2014
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