A nice slideshow featuring some of the bog-bodies that have been on display in the Irish National Museum for the last two years can be found on this link from the BBC:

BBC News: Violent death in the bogs of Ireland

BBC News: World's oldest bog body hints at violent end

And another item from the BBC today concerning the most recent addition to the bog-body fraternity, Cashel Man

In his 1966 poem Digging, the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote:

My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.

In October human remains were discovered in those County Londonderry bogs and the police called in to what was initially believed to be a possible case of one of the disappeared from the Troubles. Rather than being over 25 years old, however, the remains have turned out to be 2,500 years old.

BBC News: Bellaghy bog body

That's quite the story, Vizzer.  If the remains had belonged to one of the "disappeared" I suppose at least the person's family would know what had happened for sure.

Vizzer wrote:

... human remains ... initially believed to be a possible case of one of the disappeared from the Troubles.

That brings to mind the discovery of the bog-body generally described in the scientific literature as Lindow I, but perhaps more popularly known in Britain as 'Lindow Woman', she having been dug up from Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire.

In 1983 two commercial peat cutters noticed an unusual item on the digger's conveyor belt which on closer inspection was found to be an incomplete human head with attached remnants of soft tissue and hair. The police were immediately notified and initial forensics identified the remains as being from a woman of between 30 and 50 years of age ... and the local CID already had an idea who it was likely to be. For over two decades a local man, Peter Reyn-Bardt, had been under suspicion of murdering his estranged wife, Malika de Fernandez, who was 35 when she was first recorded as missing in 1961, however no body had ever been found. When in 1983 the police confronted Reyn-Bardt (then in prison on another charge) with the fact that human remains had recently been found just 300 yards from the cottage where he'd been living at the time of Fernandez' disappearance, Reyn-Bardt assumed that the skull came from his wife's body and soon confessed, saying, "It has been so long I thought I would never be found out."  Under further questioning he admitted to strangling her during a violent argument over money (she seems to have been trying to blackmail him over his homosexuality, which of course at that time was still a criminal offence). He then further admitted to dismembering her body with an axe and burying the remains in a drainage ditch close to the bottom of his garden.

The rest of the body had not been found but the head was sent to Oxford University for further forensic study, during which carbon-14 dating of the skull fragment returned a date of 1740 ± 80BP (c. 250 AD). Clearly this wasn't Malika de Fernandez after all and when the origins of the head became known Reyn-Bardt promptly withdrew his confession. Yet despite the fact that no trace of Fernandez' body had actually been found, Reyn-Bardt was nevertheless brought to trial at Chester Crown Court. There he pleaded guilty to manslaughter - and in due course the jury found him guilty of murder. He spent the rest of his life in prison, likely reflecting on how he might have got away with it, if only he hadn't jumped to the same wrong conclusion as had the police, and rueing the day he'd been so hasty in confessing when there was actually no material evidence against him. I don't think Fernandez' body has yet been found: perhaps she might turn up in another two millenia or so.