3,000-year-old butter discovered in Ireland

Very interesting. But it smelled ripe. When opened

I find this very interesting. Would this butter still be edible? I wonder what other mysteries await laying buried in such places in Ireland.

This totally fascinates me. I'm over in America reading about this - butter, lunala and disc, religious manuscripts, and I'm wondering just what else in the bogs of Ireland? Pretty amazing stuff all in all. Is there anywhere to go online that shows a listing of everything that's been found thus far?

Rare finds as this are a wealth of information and a "national treasure" for the Irish People. I'm intrigued.

Margarine is one molecule short of being plastic, and the shelf life of plastic is 40,000 years.

they should try it on some bread might need some salt

Not sure if it was butter but if it was it can't taste very good. The bog bodies are very well preserved one even has red hair still attached so whose to say it is not butter

How are they so sure the stuff is butter? Going on the substance information above it could easily be what was left after boiling a neighbour for a few days. 3000 years ago they were up to everything. I'm suspicious that this amount of produce was 'stored' not eaten. My hunch is that those who made it knew what it was and were waiting to pan it off to some other folk over the hill in exchange for a few dozen eggs.

I think it is very interesting and amazing. How did it taste? LizzyAnn

whew..i misread this and thought it said "butler"..what a relief..

I think it's amazing that something so long ago is still preserved like that, and the fact that we're still eating the same thing now.

"The staff of the Irish Conservation Department is drying the butter out, and once dry, will soak it in a wax-like solution to preserve it." Just the thing for toast and jam in the AM, what?