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Crime and Punishment

Cambusnethan Bog Murder

In the 1680s, a man was murdered and his body hid in Greenhead Moss near Wishaw, where it lay for ~250 years until it was found by a man digging peats in 1932.

He was aged 50ish, was 5’6”, with long brown hair, had size 7 feet, and was last seen wearing a fancy cap.

References

Mann, L.M., Graham, J., Eskdale, R.G., and W. Martin (1937) Notes on the discovery of a body in a peat moss at Cambusnethan, Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, 9(1): 44-55