Butter
sunk under
More than a hundred years
Was
recovered salty and white.
The ground itself is kind,
black butter
Melting and opening underfoot,
Missing its last
definition
By millions of years.
This is Bogland, in the words of Nobel Prize
winner Seamus Heaney. No words could have been more appropriate for today's news story.
Photo: 3,000 year old butter (courtesy of National Museum of Ireland)
Tags: Archaeology
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