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Category: History
Event Tags: Dorchester Events
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Date: Thu, 18th May 2023
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Dorset Museum, Dorchester
Phone: 01305 262735
Email: enquiries@dorsetmuseum.org
Booking Required: Advised
Price: £12.00
Dorset Museum – Bog Bodies
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Dorset Museum – Bog Bodies | Dr Melanie Giles
The well-preserved bog bodies of northern Europe have fascinated archaeologists, poets and film-makers, yet their discovery often concerned the communities who found them. In this talk, Dr Melanie Giles (University of Manchester) shares the latest thinking about the phenomenon: explaining the science behind their preservation and the challenges this creates for museum curators, as well as discussing the ethics of displaying such remains.
She situates them back within the bogs, mires and mosses from which they came; asking us to think differently about these landscapes and what they meant to prehistoric communities, as well as interrogating different ideas behind their often violent death and deposition in the bog. Amongst the cauldrons, weapons and foodstuffs also ‘offered up’ to the bog, she argues that some of them take their place as part of powerful exchanges with sacred entities but that others represent the ‘right place’ to inter those executed for crimes or dying mysterious or troubling deaths.
Ending with the tale of Manchester’s own bog head – Worsley man – she will try and unpick the life and death of this bog head, whose story must be placed within that of the Roman occupation of northern Britain.
Image: Tollund Man by Rose Ferraby
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Dorset Museum (View more Events at this Location)High West Street , Dorchester, England, DT1 1XA United Kingdom
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