In 1951, near Gunister Shetland, two men digging peat made a grisly discovery, the remains of a body in a shallow grave.

As you might expect, the police were called and the site became a crime scene.

The remains were taken to Lurwick, the capital, for further examination.

Now, so far, this sounds like standard police detective work, except for what

happened next. You see, the body wasn't actually a body at all. It was a full set of woolen

clothing that had once contained a body, and that clothing was 250 years old. In this episode, we hear how a team of archaeologists,

textile historians, and wool experts came together to unravel the secrets of Gunnister Man.

Who was he? Why was he in such a remote spot? And what had happened to him there?

I'm Alison Kourleski and you're listening to Fibernation,

tales of textiles, craft and culture.

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bit about bog bodies.

Northern Europe is full of peat bogs.

These are moors and wetlands where over millennia,

moss and plants and other vegetable matter have decayed into a kind of spongy soil.

If you garden, you've probably used peat moss in your planting beds.

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