A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and...
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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...
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wetlands Bog body – Corpse preserved in a bog Bog butter – Ancient substance found in peat bogs Bog iron – Form of iron ore deposited in bogs Irish Peatland...
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Cashel Man (redirect from Cashel Man bog body)
Cashel Man is a bog body from a bog near Cashel in County Laois, Ireland. He was found on 10 August 2011 by Bord na Móna employee Jason Phelan from Abbeyleix...
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Lindow Man (redirect from Pete Bog)
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...
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Haraldskær Woman (redirect from Bog Woman)
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). Workers found the body in 1835...
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Borremose bodies are three bog bodies that were found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man...
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North (poetry collection) (section Bog body poems)
symbolic, dealing with themes such as the Greek myth of Antaeus, the bog bodies of Northern Europe, Vikings, and other historical figures. The second...
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Tollund Man (category Bog bodies)
Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, near Silkeborg on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The man's physical...
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Grauballe Man (category Bog bodies)
Grauballe Man is a bog body that was uncovered in 1952 from a peat bog near the village of Grauballe in Jutland, Denmark. The body is that of a man dating...
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Windeby I (category Bog bodies)
the name given to the bog body found preserved in a peat bog near Windeby, Northern Germany, in 1952. Until recently, the body was also called the Windeby...
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Peat (redirect from Peat bog fire)
vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss, is one of...
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is the remains of a medieval settlement, church and castle. An ancient bog body, Old Croghan Man, was found nearby. The village of Croghan is at the southern...
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for the provisional IRA, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog." In flashback and dream there are elements of the murdered girl's...
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established. The Borremose bodies are three bog bodies that were found in 1946 and 1948 in Himmerland, Denmark, in the Borremose peat bog. They have been dated...
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Elling Woman (category Bog bodies)
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...
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Lindow Woman (category Bog bodies)
I are the names given to the partial remains of a female bog body, discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, near Wilmslow in Cheshire, England, on 13...
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Yde Girl (category Bog bodies)
58500°E / 53.09694; 6.58500 Yde Girl (English: /ˈɪdə/ ) is a bog body found in the Stijfveen peat bog near the village of Yde, Netherlands. She was found on...
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is also called a bog pool, bog eye, raised bog kolk, bog kolk or just kolk. Bog ponds owe their existence to the growth of the bog body and are thus of...
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Mummy (redirect from Mummified body)
of 140 bodies. The newly updated airing system preserves the thirty-eight bodies that are currently on display. Apart from several bog bodies, Denmark...
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an ancient peat bog west of Wilmslow, Cheshire. Bog body of Lindow Man was discovered there in 1983 Matley Bog - an ancient woodland bog in the New Forest...
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Old Croghan Man (category Bog bodies)
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...
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Greenhead Moss (section Cambusnethan Bog Body)
in the Moss, when he came across the preserved body of a fully clothed man about two feet beneath the bog. While his clothes were partially damaged, a unique...
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NMI's collection contains artifacts from prehistoric Ireland including bog bodies, Iron and Bronze Age objects such as axe heads, swords and shields in...
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Bocksten Man (category Bog bodies)
Man (Swedish: Bockstensmannen) is the remains of a medieval man's body found in a bog in Varberg Municipality, Sweden. It is one of the best-preserved...
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Incorruptibility (redirect from Incorrupt body)
Hasidic saints, such as Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk and others. Gisant Bog body Buddhist mummies Paramahansa Yogananda Sokushinbutsu Sufism Shahid Meivazhi...
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found on contemporary depictions of Germanic peoples, their art, and bog bodies. Roman historian Tacitus reports in Germania (98 CE) that the Suebian...
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Girl of the Uchter Moor (category Bog bodies)
Age bog body discovered in 2000 in marshland near Uchte, Germany. The remains include vertebrae, hair and skull pieces. The studies of the body began...
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Koelbjerg Man (category Bog bodies)
Koelbjerg Man, formerly known as "Koelbjerg Woman", is the oldest known bog body and also the oldest set of human bones found in Denmark, dated to the time...
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Huldremose Woman (category Bog bodies)
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...
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