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Bog body
Bog body (Moorleiche): a human corpse naturally mummified in acidic, anaerobic peat bogs, preserving skin, hair, and nails while bone dissolves. Famous finds include Tollund Man, Grauballe Man, and Lindow Man, mostly Iron Age deaths.
Cashel Man
Cashel Man is an Early Bronze Age bog body found in 2011 in Cashel Bog, County Laois, Ireland, dated around 2000 BC, the oldest fleshed bog body known, showing violent death and interpreted as a kingship sacrifice.
Grauballe Man
Grauballe Man (Grauballemanden) is a Danish Iron Age bog body found in Nebelgaard Bog in 1952, dated around 390 BC, executed by throat-cutting, and displayed at Moesgaard Museum as the world's best-preserved bog body.
Haraldskær Woman
Haraldskær Woman (Haraldskærkvinden), also long called Queen Gunhild, is a Danish Iron Age bog body found 20 October 1835 in Haraldskær Mose near Vejle; about 40 years old at death, strangled, never conserved, displayed at Kulturmuseet Vejle.
Lindow Woman
Lindow Woman (Lindow I), a female bog body skull found 13 May 1983 at Lindow Moss, Cheshire; initially dated 30-50 years old, it prompted Peter Reyn-Bardt's murder confession before radiocarbon dating showed it was Roman-era.
Old Croghan Man
Old Croghan Man: Irish Early Iron Age bog body (c. 362–175 BC) found June 2003 in Clonearl Bog, Co. Offaly; ~198 cm tall, manicured nails, ritual killing, displayed at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Tollund Man
Tollund Man (Tollundmanden), Iron Age Danish bog body found 1950 in Bjældskovdal bog near Silkeborg; hanged man dated 375–210 BC, displayed at Museum Silkeborg, famous for his preserved face and last-meal studies.
Yde Girl
Yde Girl (Meisje van Yde), a Dutch bog body of a 16-year-old girl strangled with a woollen band, found 1897 near Yde, Drenthe; radiocarbon dated 40 BC–AD 50; held in the Drents Museum, Assen.