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Perhaps not. But that's not the point. The rate of decomposition
will depend a great deal on the biological activity, and a compost
heap is several times as active as even the top 6" of the soil.
Below that, the activity drops off rapidly.
That is why exhuming bodies from 6' down is still viable decades
on, .
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Or even exhuming a wild boar skull from a cave several thousand years on, as happened on Leck Fell a couple of years ago.
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