In the final episode of The Discovery Series: The Bog Bodies, it’s time to bring everything together. Travel writer Fionn Davenport is joined by Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland to sift through the evidence and explore the three leading theories behind the deaths of Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man. Drawing on archaeology, belief systems and landscape, they weigh what we know - and what remains unknowable. As the journey comes to a close, there’s space for reflection. Fionn re...
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In the final episode of The Discovery Series: The Bog Bodies, it’s time to bring everything together. Travel writer Fionn Davenport is joined by Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland to sift through the evidence and explore the three leading theories behind the deaths of Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man. Drawing on archaeology, belief systems and landscape, they weigh what we know - and what remains unknowable. As the journey comes to a close, there’s space for reflection. Fionn re...
In this second episode, travel writer Fionn Davenport heads to the Hill of Tara, ancient Ireland’s seat of power, to confront the central mystery of the bog bodies: why did Clonycavan Man and Old Croghan Man kneel before their killers? To understand their world, he begins where the high kings of the Bronze and Iron Ages were crowned. With insights from Hill of Tara guide Margaret Brady, archaeologists Dr Jacqueline Cahill Wilson and Dr Rena Maguire, and former National Museum Keeper Eam...
The Discovery Series: The Bog Bodies
In the final episode of The Discovery Series: The Bog Bodies, it’s time to bring everything together. Travel writer Fionn Davenport is joined by Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland to sift through the evidence and explore the three leading theories behind the deaths of Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man. Drawing on archaeology, belief systems and landscape, they weigh what we know - and what remains unknowable. As the journey comes to a close, there’s space for reflection. Fionn re...
