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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lucinda Cameron

Objects pulled from peat bog reveal secrets of 300-year-old cold case

The belongings of a young man suspected to have been murdered in the early 1700s have been unveiled in a new exhibition.

The body of the man, estimated to be between 20 and 25 years old, was discovered in a peat bank on Arnish Moor on the Isle of Lewis in 1964.

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