I sat glued to the screen, mesmerised by the Tollund Man’s perfectly preserved ... titled The Body in the Bog. It detailed how, in 1984, a peat cutter at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, spotted what ...

The skeleton of the Porsmose man was found in 1946, in a peat bog near Næstved ... Throughout the UK, bogs provide the perfect environment for this to happen. Tollund Man, discovered in ...

A couple years later, a peat cutter discovered Grauballe Man in a bog about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Tollund. Unlike Tollund Man, Grauballe Man was completely naked. His shock of red hair ...

The discovery of the Tollund Man has led to a greater understanding of how the man died. Peat cutters found the corpse preserved in a bog around 12km from Silkeborg in Denmark. The corpse was so ...

In 1950, peat cutters discovered a mysterious body preserved in a bog situated around 12km west of Silkeborg, Denmark. At the time, the pair believed that the body - known affectionately as Tollund ...

After his death, the acidity in the peat bog preserved Tollund Man’s bones and many of his soft tissues, including an intact yet shrunken brain and intestines complete with their contents.

‘Some day I will go to Aarhus, To see his peat-brown head' — The Tollund ... Cashel Man would die in 2,100BC. Denmark’s Tollund Man and our Irish bog bodies date to around 400BC.

Tollund Man was so exquisitely mummified that he was ... He was likely deposited in the peat bog sometime between 3300–3100 BCE. Vittrup Man was included in a sweeping 2014 genomic project ...

A recent analysis of another bog body, Tollund Man—thought to have been ... before ending up preserved in the peat. Vittrup Man was between 30 and 40 years old when he died.

A few thousand years younger, more or less. Indeed, those who came across Tollund Man while digging for peat in Bjældskovdal bog in 1950 suspected him to be a recent murder victim. That was ...

A few thousand years younger, more or less. Indeed, those who came across Tollund Man while digging for peat in Bjældskovdal bog in 1950 suspected him to be a recent murder victim. There are many ...

The head of bog body "Tollund Man". Despite looking extremely well preserved ... and nearly all of them were placed in bogs intentionally. Peat is created through the decomposition of organic ...