The accumulating peat eventually formed a thick dome called a raisedbog.
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This bouncy, wet, raisedbog had always been packed with rare sphagnum mosses, exquisite multi-coloured lichens and insect-eating sundew plants.
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Now a once-degraded raisedbog is recovering, together with woodland and meadows, and a wonderland of flora and fauna is emerging.
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Ole Nielsen, the museum archaeologist, drove me to the Bjældskovdal, a sprawling raisedbog about 15km away where the two bodies were found.
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A raisedbog of major heritage value will be destroyed if a peat mining company continues development, the Irish Peatland Conservation Council has warned.
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He confirmed the ending of the 10-year derogation on the 1999 EU ban non-commercial cutting for the 32 raisedbog Special Areas of Conservation (SACs).
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Raisedbog is a popular wetland habitat for rare plants and birds.