Bog Collection

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Collecting Turf from the Bog, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland

Sweet gale or Dutch myrtle, Myrica gale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Turf Bog, Connemara (c.1920-40). Craig, James Humbert 1877-1944. Date: 1920-40 (circa)

Alcock & Brown - 3
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown terminate their successful first crossing of the Atlantic by air by crashing their Vickers Vimy in an Irish bog

Rail / Chat Moss / 1831
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The railway crosses the Chat Moss peat bog, a major feat of civil engineering on the part of George Stephenson

Frosses Bog near Ballymena - a view of a tree lined country road with turf stacked. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballymena). Date: circa early 1900s

Nydam Viking Ship
The 007 Nydam ship, one of three vessels discovered in the 19th century, and dating from the late Iron Age. Preservation was aided by the ships peat bog deposit site

Poster, Connemara, Great Southern Railways, Ireland
Poster, Connemara, The Old Bog Road, Great Southern Railways, Ireland. Date: circa 1920

Clamping Turf in a Fermanagh Peat Bog - a view of a group of workers stacking turf into piles over the peat bog. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Cutting the Turf in a Co. Derry Peat Bog - a view of a group of workers cutting turf from a face. There are two turf barrows being used. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim)

Stacking Turf in Donegal - a view of three people, one with a turf creel on his back, stacking turf into a large pile in a Donegal bog. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal)

Cyclanthus bipartitus, Cyclanthe a deux feuilles. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Bog arum, Calla palustris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Bog asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Bog orchid, Hammarbya paludosa (Marsh tway-blade, Malaxis paludosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Bog laurel, Kalmia polifolia (Kalmia glauca). Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mlle. Brenet after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et

Bog rosemary, Andromeda polifolia. Handcoloured stipple engraving by after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et Arbustes, Paris, 1804-1819

Curtis British Entomology Plate 763
Lepidoptera: Tortrix galiana = Aphelia viburnana (Sweet Gale Tortrix) [Plant: Myrica gale (Sweet Gale, Bog Myrtle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 655
Lepidoptera: Aplota robertsonella Curtis = Anarsia spartiella (Wanstead Grey) [Plant: Andromeda polifolia (Bog- or Wild-rosemary)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 631
Lepidoptera. Stilbia anomalata = Stilbia anomala (False Footman, The Anomalous) [Plant: Vaccinium uliginosum (Bog Bilberry)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 587
Lepidoptera: Galleria mellonella (Honeycombe Moth) [Plant: Stellaria uliginosa (Bog Stitchwort)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 440
Lepidoptera: Leptogramma irrorana = Acleris (Peronea) literana (Sprinkled Rough-wing) [Plant: Anagallis tenella (Bog Pimpernell)] Date: 1824-39

Normans attacking Hereward the Wakes refuge
Hereward the Wake, also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile (1035-1072) - an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England

Poll Tax demonstrators in the roadway, Central London
Poll Tax demonstrators in the roadway in Central London. One man stands in fighting pose, with his fists clenched. Another man holds a placard with the words: Bog Off Thatcher

The Road to Bog Walk, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
Bog Walk is a town in the parish of Saint Catherine, Jamaica Date: circa 1909

Will of the wisp, - circa 1800
A mischievous demon, in the guise of a Will o the Wisp, lures unwary travellers to their deaths in a bog. Date: circa 1800

Throwing peat into trailer during peat cutting, County Clare
Throwing peat into a trailer during peat cutting, County Clare, Ireland Date: 1992

Peat cutting shoe - 2
Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe

Industrial peat cutting, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire Date: 1990

Peat cutting shoe - 1
Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Peat cutter, Shropshire
Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. He stands by a stack of cut peat with his pet dog. His old tractor is behind him

Turf Cutting, Co. Fermanagh - a view of six men working at a turf face in a bog, one is using a turf barrow. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh). Date: circa early 1900s

The Early Iron Age. The bog body from Huldremose in Djursland from 100 AD. The woman wore a skirt of wool, a scarf and two fleece capes. Her hair was tied up with a long woollen cord

Bronze Age. Belt ornaments. From a bog at Fjellerup, Funen
Prehistoric. Art. Bronze Age. Belt ornaments. From a bog at Fjellerup, Funen. 700-500 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Bronze Age. Four interlaced plaits. From Farup at Vindum, central Jutland. C. 350 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Lurs. The lur horns are Nordic wind instruments. Used for Br
Prehistory. Art. Metal Age. Lurs. The lur horns are the distinctively Nordic wind instruments. Used to create an atmospheric background of sound for Bronze Age rituals

Harpoons. Bone. Maglemosian Culture, 8700-6500 BC
Harpoons made of elk or red deer bone. Maglemosian Culture, 8700-6500 BC. National Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Bog village, County Roscommon, Ireland
Cultivation in a bog village in County Roscommon. Peasants farm the land while a dog looks on. Village dwellings border the fields and other women can be seen in the background working on the land

Mules and horses during WWI
Variety of photograph scenes, showing horses in the fulness of strength, to a foal with mother, mule in the mire of the battle area and mules stuck in mud in Flanders. Date: 1917

View of the Bog Walk, Rio Cobre, Jamaica, West Indies
View of the Bog Walk, a winding road along the Rio Cobre, to the west of Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1910

Trassey Bog, Mourne Mountains (1870). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1870

Slieve Bernagh from the Trassey Bog, Mourne Mountains. Moore, James MD 1819 - 1883

Water protection of Antwept 1914
German artillery becoming bogged in flooded meadows in Antwerp. Wading through water up to their waist with ditches and uneven ground made it impossible to attempt to cross some of these swampted

Ballee Bog, Ballymena, Co. Antrim - a view over bogland. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballymena). Date: circa early 1900s

A Co. Fermanagh Bog - a view of a thatched building surrounded by turf stacks. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Turf Clamped in Sluggan Bog - an elevated view of turf clamped in stacks in a bog. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Turf Stacked on a Rampart Road in Sluggan Bog - a view of large stacks of turf at each side of a road with a man in the foreground and a motor car in the distance. (Location: Ireland)

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