bog oak

The bog oak, jet black in appearance, was a very hard wood suitable for the purpose.

There be a fine piece of bog oak close by that will bring a pretty penny, but I'll need a strong hand or two."

The odd petrified bog oak can be found too.

Natural sources were also utilized such as Connemara marble, bog oak, or mother of pearl.

During the nineteenth century bog oak was used to make carved decorative items such as jewellery.

Between the two windows is the tabernacle, which was part of the bog oak work, including the altar, seat and pulpit.

Information and pictures on Bog Oak in natural form as well as finished artworks.

It was during this period that the main lower peat of the Fens, with its bog oak, was formed.

The tables and benches burnished bog oak.

A free-standing, carved wooden screen made of bog oak in the Great Hall probably dates from between 1530 and 1540.

The banquet hall had not one but two great hearths, the bog oak stacked upon them, the coals always glowing.

Jens is known to seek out and experiment with unusual materials for his basses like 9000 year old bog oak.

The only flashy ornament in the office was a sliding door of bog oak plucked from a Scottish marsh and carbon-dated to 4,000 years ago.

The hilts of modern Scottish dirks are often carved from dark colored wood such as bog oak or ebony.

An eighteen-year span of climate worsening is recorded in Irish bog oaks, and H-3 was blamed for it.

Bog oak, wood that has been partially preserved by bogs, has been used in the manufacture of furniture.

It is constructed of local stone and its walls are some 20 inches thick; bog oak beams support the thatched roof of local flax.

Sometimes the furniture was blackened with polish to match the very dark bog oak, native to Ireland, that was commonly used in 17th-century furniture.

Post-Ice Age this would have been forested and bog oak can still be found on the flat peatland tops over 250 metres high.

This consisted of a silver St. Brigid's Cross mounted on a base of bog oak and Connemara marble.

The crucifix to the right of the altarpiece is executed in bog oak by Johannes Kragh and is a donation from 1929.

Climate change during the Little Ice Age saw the advance of marshlands, the dying of woodlands (which became bog oak) and the reduction of pasture.

Its frame is of white oak and rare bog oak that acquires its deep hue while submerged in a marshy bog for decades.

'How about 'Bog Oak'?'

Gimson's tables also have their edges finished with bands of chip carving or sometimes with inlaid bands of light holly and dark bog oak.