Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog

Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog

Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, maybe most don't dream of unearthing enormous chunks of butter, but that's exactly what Jack Conway discovered in the Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, at the beginning of June, Atlas Obscura reported. Conway is a turf cutter, meaning he harvests "turf" or peat - it's similar to moss - from a bog to later burn...

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