Bog Bodies: Cladh Hallan to Betty Corrigall

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Annie and Jenny return to their beloved bogs to have a look at human bodies that have been buried and preserved in peat. From Bronze Age mummies, to the Gunnister Man’s unique knitted garments, we examine the human remains and artefacts that have been excavated from bogs. We tell the tragic history of Betty Corrigall, a young woman buried on the boundary between two parishes.

Thanks to Orkney Archives and the National Museum of Scotland for answering some strange questions about bog bodies.

Come and see Annie’s play! The Wound, the Rag and the In-Between follows a Highland journalist as she unravels a Victorian death. She exposes secrets that had been buried for generations. By the clootie tree, in a place meant for recovery and wellbeing, tragic forces are looming, ever-present. Book online at: https://eden-court.co.uk/event/the-wound-the-rag-and-the-in-between

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, a podcast about Scottish history, folklore and bogs.
0:17.0	I'm Jenny, a naturally acidic environment.
0:20.2	And I'm Annie, some unexpected but exceptionally well
0:23.3	executed knitting, because I tie myself in knots. In this episode, we are once again putting on
0:30.5	our wellies and heading out into the bog. We had an astounding response to our recent episode on bog butter.
0:39.2	Honestly, you guys loved that ancient spreadable goodness, almost as much as Annie does.
0:44.4	I was like, I don't know if this is going to land well, Annie, but nope, people loved it.
0:49.8	So, we thought we would bring you all the human equivalent of bog butter, which is bog bodies.
0:58.7	Although, it may not be as popular as you can't spread a bog body on toast.
1:03.6	I mean, you could try.
1:06.9	And unlike that untasteful joke, this episode is to promote my first ever stage play,
1:13.3	which is being performed at Eden Court in Inverness on the 4th of May. It's called the
1:19.6	wound, the rag and the in-between, and one of the main plots of this story revolves around a bog body.
1:27.3	Tickets are pay what you can so everyone can come
1:30.3	along and it would be wonderful to see some of you listeners there so please do get a ticket
1:36.9	if you happen to be in the area. The wound, the rag and the in between doesn't really give
1:41.8	much away Annie. Is the bog body the in between?, because it's stuck in-between layers of incredibly slowly
1:47.3	decaying organic matter.
1:48.7	Jenny, I am rubbish with titles for naming things.
1:52.6	I haven't come up with a good title since I named this podcast, and we started way back
1:57.9	in 2019.
1:58.8	Well then, let us use this episode of Stories of Scotland Bogcast to spread
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