DEADLY COMPANION: LOUSE INFESTATION AT SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EMLAGH, COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND

The burial of a child was found at Emlagh townland, near Dingle, County Kerry (Shee and O’Kelly, 1966). This child was a bog body, whose hair, skin, and clothes were preserved naturally within a peat bog. The clothing was a distinctly medieval style gown. Clothing design was probably slow to evolve in this part of […]