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The oldest known bog body is the skeleton of Koelbjerg Manfrom Denmark, which has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithicperiod.[1] The oldest fleshed bog body is that of Cashel Man, which dates to 2000 BC during the Bronze Age.[4] The overwhelming majority of bog bodies – including examples such as Tollund Man, Grauballe Manand Lindow ...
Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the Northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Reports of bog bodies surfaced during the early 18th century.
A raised bog in Ķemeri National Park, Jūrmala, Latvia, formed approximately 10,000 years ago in the postglacial period and now a tourist attraction. A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. [ 1 ]
The Haraldskær Woman (or Haraldskjaer Woman) is the name given to a bog body of a woman preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark, and dating from about 490 BC (pre-Roman Iron Age). [ 1 ][ 2 ] Workers found the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate. The anaerobic conditions and acids of the peat bog contributed to the body ...
Moneybeg Bog, small bog in County Westmeath, Ireland. Mount Hevey Bog, small bog in County Westmeath, Ireland. Nure Bog, small bog in County Westmeath, Ireland. Scargh Bog, small bog in County Westmeath, Ireland. Wooddown Bog, small bog in County Westmeath, Ireland. Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog, bog in County Longford, Ireland.
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Old Croghan Man. Old Croghan Man (Seanfhear Chruacháin in Irish) is a well-preserved Irish Iron Age bog body found in June 2003. The remains are named after Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, near where the body was found. The find is on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
Yde Girl (English: / ˈɪdə / ⓘ) is a bog body found in the Stijfveen peat bog near the village of Yde, Netherlands. She was found on 12 May 1897 and was reputedly uncannily well-preserved when discovered (especially her hair), but by the time the body was turned over to the authorities two weeks later, it had been severely damaged and ...