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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 ...
This is a list of bog bodies in order of country in which they were first discovered. 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.
Height. 161 cm (5 ft 3 in) The Tollund Man (died 405–384 BCE) is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 5th century BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. [ 1 ] He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, near Silkeborg on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. [ 2 ]
The Elling Woman is a bog body discovered in 1938 west of Silkeborg, Denmark. The Tollund Man was later discovered just c. 60 m (200 ft) away, twelve years after the Elling Woman's discovery. [1] The Elling Woman was mistakenly described as a man in P. V. Glob 's book The Bog People, when it was published in 1965. [2]
Lindow Man. Appearance. Lindow Man on display at the British Museum in 2023. Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The remains were found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat cutters.
Huldremose woman on display at the National Museum of Denmark. Huldremose Woman, or Huldre Fen Woman, is a female bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten, Jutland, Denmark. Analysis by Carbon 14 dating indicates that she lived during the Iron Age, sometime between 160 BCE and 340 CE. The mummified remains are exhibited at the ...
Cashel Man. Cashel Man is a bog body from a bog near Cashel in County Laois, Ireland. He was found on 10 August 2011 [1] by Bord na Móna employee Jason Phelan from Abbeyleix. The body was a young adult male, around 20–25, [2] who had been intentionally covered with peat after death. The crouched figure was recovered after being damaged by a ...
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.