Rural Life: Wealth of history buried in boglands

Q&A: Gary Snelling

They support distinctive animal and plant life and are the only eco-systems which contain a record of their own growth and development.

This living archive also contains valuable information on the environment and human activity and also records the effect of climate change. But many of the sites that have provided such invaluable insight into the history of farming and the impact of humans on our landscape, have been destroyed by development and their evidence cannot be recreated.