peat bog
Example Sentences
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A Bronze Age shield found in a peat bog has been returned to Scotland for the first time in more than 230 years.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
He grew up a farmer, and when he founded a golf course here 30 years ago, his favorite part was moving dirt around what had once been a peat bog.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
He noted that “holdover” is also used to describe peat bog fires that burn many feet below the surface for weeks or months, even under snowpack.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
We know now that the remains — extraordinarily well preserved — belonged to a teenage boy from the Iron Age, held together for thousands of years by the preservative power of the peat bog.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
After we had passed the basaltic wall of the fiord of Stapi we passed over a vegetable fibrous peat bog, left from the ancient vegetation of this peninsula.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
