Bog Bodies Flashcards
Uchter Moor girl (“Moora”)
c. 650 BCE
Found 2000-2005 in two stages
Malnutrition, loads, skull fractures, tumor, naked
Ritual sacrifice? Murder? Accidental death? Natural death and burial?
Bilberry Bog
Tollund Man
1st c. BCE - 1st c. CE
Found 1950: 50 yards from firm ground
Vegetable gruel found in his stomach
No clothes except a cap and a belt
Rope around neck
Fetal position
Cashel Man
Found 2011
Dates to 2000 BCE (oldest big body with skin intact, 500 years before King Tut’s birth)
Within sight of inauguration site of later Kong’s of Laois
Skin with intact hairs
Old Croghan Man
362-175 BCE
Ritually killed; dismembered
6’6” tall, regular meat eater, but cereal and buttermilk
Bound, defense wounds, nipples damaged
Clonycavan man
392-301 BCE
Ritually killed; no hard labor; rich diet; high status; nipples damaged
World’s First Mohawk! (Oils and pine resin imported from Spain)
Baronstown West Man
242-388 CE
Hazel and birch branches
Boundary
Pelt cloak
Yde Girl
54 BCE - 128 CE (discovered 1897)
Scoliosis, shaved head, limped, worn clothes
Strangled and stabbed
Weerdinge Couple (Mr. and Mrs. Veenstra)
100 BCE - 50 CE
Strabo: auguries amongst the Celts (but found in Netherlands)
Windeby Bog
1st c CE
Tacitus, Germania - adultery
Actually a boy
Lindow Man “Pete Marsh”
20-90 CE
No labor, no sword arm; fingernails; fur armband but naked; copper paint?
