A PILGRIM’S PICKLING
Miranda Aldhouse-Green, emeritus professor of archaeology at Cardiff University, says that many of the bog people may have been on spiritual journeys before being killed
Recent research highlights the ‘geographic outsider’ status of two of the Danish bog bodies – the women of Huldremose and Haraldskær. Do you agree that this was the most important factor in their deaths? This new interpretation, based on isotopic analysis, is very important for endeavours to understand who these people were in life. In no way does it detract from the idea of the special status according those who ended up as bog people.