Peat/tweed

Prince of Tears

Predation on the moss.

Home amongst the ruins. Whilst standing on the wall of this ruined croft a peregrine falcon flew out from beneath my feet.

Summer on the bog.

Peat Burning.

Moorsoldaten. In the early 1930s the Nazis sent their socialist and communist opponents to concentration camps in Lower Saxony where this song- later taken up by the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War- was written.

Sphagnum framed by bog cottongrass knotwork

Lum (Scots):- chimney

“Lang may yer lum reek.” (Lit: Long may your chimney smoke), i.e. long life to you.

There are limits to experimental archaeology, like how far Alexander goes in re-enacting a bog person strangulation with a length of my newly woven cottongrass cord.