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Decapitated woman found in Irish bog is 2,000-year-old ritual sacrifice

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The Ballymacombs More Woman was discovered in a peat bog in Northern Ireland in October 2023 .

The body was originally thought to be a teenage boy who was between 13 and 17 years old at the time of his death.

A further analysis of the body has revealed significant new information about its death.

The woman's death was caused by decapitation, according to an archaeologist at Queen's University Belfast .