Bog Body - Notable Bog Bodies

Notable Bog Bodies

Hundreds of bog bodies have been recovered and studied. The bodies have been most commonly found in the Northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland. In 1965, the German scientist Alfred Dieck cataloged more than 1,850 bog bodies, but later scholarship revealed much of the Dieck's work was erroneous, and an exact number of discovered bodies is unknown.

Several bog bodies are notable for the high quality of their preservation and the substantial research by archaeologists and forensic scientists. These include:

• Bocksten Man, a modern body from 1290-1430 CE, found in 1936 in Varberg Municipality, Sweden.
• Borremose Bodies, from 400-700 BCE, found in the 1940s in Himmerland, Denmark.
• Cladh Hallan mummies, from 1600-1300 BCE, found on the island of South Uist, Scotland.
• Clonycavan Man, from 392-201 BCE, found in 2003 in County Meath, Ireland
• Girl of the Uchter Moor, found in 2000 in Uchte, Germany.
• Grauballe Man, from 290 BCE, found in 1952 in Jutland, Denmark.
• Haraldskær Woman, from 490 BCE, found in 1835 in Jutland, Denmark.
• Lindow Man, from 2 BCE – 119 CE, found in 1984 in Cheshire, England.
• Old Croghan Man, from 362-175 BCE, found in 2003 County Offaly, Ireland.
• Tollund Man, from 400 BCE, found in 1950 in Jutland, Denmark.
• Weerdinge Men, from 160-220 BCE, found in Drenthe, Netherlands in 1904.
• Windeby I, found in 1952 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• Yde Girl, 170 BCE–230 CE, found in 1897 near Yde, Netherlands.

For a more comprehensive list of bog body discoveries, see List of bog bodies.