List of bog bodies
The list of bog bodies contains a selection of international bog body finds .
About 1000 human bog corpses are currently documented and scientifically confirmed from Europe. The finds date from the Neolithic to the present, with a significant accumulation in the Northern European Iron Age . The focus of the spatial distribution is in Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, as well as Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. The first cataloging of bog corpses was done for Schleswig-Holstein in 1873 by Heinrich Handelmann and Adolf Pansch , by Johanna Mestorf in 1871, 1900 and 1907. The controversial bog corpse researcher Alfred Dieck finally listed more than 1850 bog corpses from Europe in his unfinished main work, of which however a large part is not scientifically verifiable or has turned out to be incorrect. The archaeologist Wijnand van der Sanden published a first compilation for the Netherlands in 1990, which he was able to expand again in 1992. Briggs and Turner published further find listings for Great Britain and Ireland in 1986 and Turner in 1995, and for Ireland Ó Floinn in 2005.
However, the following list is neither representative of the temporal nor the spatial distribution of the bog body finds.
Surname | Found year | gender | country | region | Dating | photo | comment |
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Amcott's Moor Woman | 1747 | W. | Great Britain | Lincolnshire | 200-400 | Figure pbs.org | An early find of which only the left waistband shoe has survived. |
Bockstensmann | 1936 | M. | Sweden | Hallands Lan | 1230-1430 | Sweden's most famous bog body. | |
Cladh Hallan | 1998 | D. | Great Britain | Outer Hebrides | 1600-1300 BC Chr. | A series of prehistoric bog bodies, some of which were not buried until several hundred years after their death. | |
Clonycavan man | 2003 | M. | Ireland | County Meath | 392-201 BC Chr. | Man with a kind of mohawk haircut . | |
Wife of Borremose | 1948 | W. | Denmark | North Jylland | around 770 BC Chr. | Also called Borremose III . | |
Dannike wife | 1942 | W. | Sweden | Västra Götalands län | after 1690 | Pipe smoker buried in the moor. | |
Mrs. von Elling | 1938 | W. | Denmark | Midtjylland | 280-140 BC Chr. | ||
Mrs. von Haraldskær | 1835 | W. | Denmark | Syddanmark | around 490 BC Chr. | Also called Queen Gunhild in Danish Dronning Gunhild . | |
Wife of Huldremose | 1879 | W. | Denmark | Midtjylland | 350-41 BC Chr. | ||
Man from Koelbjerg | 1941 | M. | Denmark | Syddanmark | around 8000 BC Chr. | Oldest bog body found so far. Previously known as Frau von Koelbjerg and, according to the latest DNA analyzes, a man | |
Mrs. of Luttra | 1947 | W. | Sweden | Västra Götalands län | 3105-2935 BC Chr. | Also called Hallonflickan ( Swedish for raspberry girl ). | |
Wife of Meenybraddan | 1978 | W. | Ireland | County Donegal | 1040-1410 | ||
Mrs. von Peiting | 1957 | W. | Germany | Bavaria | 1290-1440 | Also called Rosalinde . A special burial deviating from the usual funeral rite . | |
Mrs. von Stidsholt | 1859 | W. | Denmark | North Jylland | unsafe (probably iron age ) | Head separated from body by decapitation. | |
Mrs. von Zweeloo | 1951 | W. | Netherlands | Drenthe | 60-155 | ||
Grauballe man | 1952 | M. | Denmark | Midtjylland | 375-255 BC Chr. | ||
Jan Spieker | 1978 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 1828 | A person known by name who was buried outside a local cemetery in an emergency. | |
Kayhausen boy | 1922 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 4. – 1. Century BC Chr. | ||
Child from the Esterweger can | 1939 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 1046-1164 | Also known as a child from the Sedelsberger can , Junge von Burlage or trivially Burli . (Preserved bones marked in red on the drawing) | |
Lindow man | 1984 | M. | Great Britain | Cheshire | 20-90 | Britain's best-known and best-studied bog body. | |
Girls from the Bareler Moor | 1784 | W. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 260-395 | The earliest bog body find, parts of which (skin fragments of the right breast, marked in red on the drawing) have been preserved. | |
Girls from the Uchter Moor | 2000 | W. | Germany | Lower Saxony | around 650 BC Chr. | Also called moora , so far the last moor body found in Germany. | |
Girl from Dröbnitz | 1939 | W. | Poland | Warmia-Masuria | uncertain around 500 BC Chr. |
At that time East Prussian found area. | |
Girl from Röst | 1926 | W. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 200-95 BC Chr. | ||
Girls from Yde | 1897 | W. | Netherlands | Drenthe | 40 BC Chr. To 50 | Most famous bog body in the Netherlands. | |
Man from Jührdenerfeld | 1934 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 179 BC Until 25 | Also known as the Bockhornerfeld man . | |
Man from Bernuthsfeld | 1907 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 680-775 | Recently also known trivially as Berni . | |
Borremose Man | 1946 | M. | Denmark | North Jylland | around 840 BC Chr. | Also Borremose I called. Scheme of the state of preservation shortly after the discovery in 1946: red = bone fractures, skin color = soft tissue, gray / white = bones | |
Man from Damendorf | 1900 | M. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 135-335 | With suebian knot hairstyle . | |
Man of Datgen | 1959 | M. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 135-385 | ||
Man from Emmer-Erfscheidenveen | 1938 | M. | Netherlands | Drenthe | 1370-1215 BC Chr. | ||
Man from Exloermond | 1914 | M. | Netherlands | Drenthe | around 400 BC Chr. | ||
Man from Gallagh | 1821 | M. | Ireland | County Galway | 470-120 BC Chr. | ||
Husbäke's husband 1931 | 1931 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | unsure | ||
Husbäke's husband 1936 | 1936 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 75-215 | ||
Man from Kragelund | 1898 | M. | Denmark | North Jylland | around 1099 | Also called Fredriksdalmanden . | |
Man from Kreepen | 1903 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 1440-1625 | Remains were lost in World War II . | |
Man from New England | 1941 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 140-320 | ||
Man of New Verses | 1900 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 135-385 | Also called Roter Franz . | |
Man from Obenaltendorf | 1895 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 260-380 | ||
Man from Osterby | 1948 | M. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 75-130 | Decapitated head with suebian knot hairstyle . | |
Man of Porsmose | 1946 | M. | Denmark | Zealand | 2850-2670 BC Chr. | Skull with arrowhead in nose and palate. | |
Man from Rendswühren | 1871 | M. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 1st to 2nd century | ||
Man from Windeby | 1952 | M. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 380-185 BC Chr. | Also called Windeby II . | |
Man from Worsley Moss | 1958 | M. | Great Britain | City of Salford | at 120 | ||
Men of Hunteburg | 1949 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | 245-415 | Two men interred together, whose bodies were destroyed during conservation. | |
Men from Weerdinge | 1904 | M. | Netherlands | Drenthe | 40 BC Chr. To 50 | Formerly known in the Netherlands as Mr. and Mrs. Veenstra or the pair of Weedrings , as one of the corpses was misinterpreted as a woman. | |
Bog corpse from the Rieper Moor | 1754 | U | Germany | Lower Saxony | 253-348 | Germany's second oldest documented bog body find | |
Bog corpse Borremose II | 1947 | U | Denmark | North Jylland | around 475 BC Chr. | Neither cause of death nor gender could be determined. | |
Bog body from Bunsoh | 1890 | U | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 560-620 | ||
Bog body from Kibbelgaarn | 1791 | M. | Netherlands | Groningen | unknown | not available | Written sources indicate that the bog body was sold and made into mumia . |
Bog body from Lindow I | 1983 | W. | Great Britain | Cheshire | at 250 | Also called Frau von Lindow , a head that the police initially attributed to a recent murder case and which prompted the suspect to confess. | |
Bog body from Pangerfilze | 1927 | M. | Germany | Bavaria | 18th century | The remains of the find are lost. | |
Bog body from Tumbeagh | 1998 | U | Ireland | County Offaly | 12th or 13th century | First bog body discovered during a scheduled archaeological excavation . | |
Bog body from Windeby I | 1952 | M. | Germany | Schleswig-Holstein | 41-118 | Formerly known as the Girl from Windeby , a boy according to the latest research from 2006. | |
Bog bodies from Wijster | 1901 | U | Netherlands | Drenthe | around 1600 | A group of four. | |
Old Croghan man | 2003 | M. | Ireland | County Offaly | 362-175 BC Chr. | At an estimated 198 cm, the tallest historical person found so far. | |
Stoneyisland man | 1929 | M. | Ireland | County Galway | 3350-3220 BC Chr. | Ireland's oldest known bog body. | |
Tollund man | 1950 | M. | Denmark | Midtjylland | 375-210 BC Chr. | Denmark's most famous bog corpse. | |
Windover | 1982 | D. | United States | Florida | 5340-5230 BC Chr. | With 168 bog bodies recovered so far, the site is one of the most important bog find complexes worldwide. | |
Bleivik man | 1952 | M. | Norway | Rogaland | 6110-5890 BC Chr. | ||
Man from Hogenseth | 1920 | M. | Germany | Lower Saxony | unknown | not available | The find was buried without scientific investigation and is considered lost. |
Moor corpse Bremervörde FStNr. 98 | 1934 | W ~ | Germany | Lower Saxony | 634-689 | Also known as the bog body from Bremervörde Gnattenbergswiesen | |
Gunnister Man | 1951 | M. | Great Britain | Shetland | 1690-1710 | ||
Cashel Man | 2011 | M. | Ireland | County Laois | 2141-1960 BC Chr. | ||
Burlage peat dog | 1953 | U | Germany | Lower Saxony | 1477-1611 | One of the few, almost completely preserved animal bog bodies. |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Handelmann , Adolf Pansch : Moor corpses in Schleswig-Holstein . Schwers'sche Buchhandlung, Kiel 1873, p. 6-11, 17-29 .
- ↑ Johanna Mestorf : About the bog bodies found in Holstein and elsewhere . In: Karl Andree (Hrsg.): Globus: Illustrated magazine for country and ethnology . tape 20 . Vieweg, 1871, ISSN 0935-0535 , p. 139-142 .
- ^ Johanna Mestorf : Moor corpses . In: Report of the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities at the University of Kiel . tape 42 . Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1900.
- ^ Johanna Mestorf : Moor corpses . In: Report of the Schleswig-Holstein Museum of Patriotic Antiquities at the University of Kiel . tape 44 . Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1907, p. 14-50 .
- ^ Alfred Dieck : The European bog body finds (Hominidenmoorfunde) . In: Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history . tape 5 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1965 (only the catalog part Volume 1 of the three-volume work has been published, the scientific evaluation and the source information remained unpublished).
- ^ Wijnand van der Sanden , Sabine Eisenbeiß: Imaginary people - Alfred Dieck and the bog bodies of northwest Europe . In: Archaeological correspondence sheet . No. 36 , 2006, ISSN 0342-734X , p. 111-122 (English).
- ^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Alfred Dieck and the Dutch bog bodies: some critical marginal notes . In: Lower Saxony Regional Association for Prehistory (ed.): The customer NF . No. 44 , 1993, ISSN 0342-0736 , pp. 127-139 .
- ^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Men en moeras: veenlijken in Nederland van de bronstijd tot en met de Romeinse tijd . In: Archeologische monografieën van het Drents Museum . No. 1 . Drents Museum, Assen 1990, ISBN 90-70884-31-3 (Dutch).
- ^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Men en moeras: het vervolg . Assen 1992 (Dutch).
- ↑ CS Briggs, Richard C. Turner: A Gazetteer of Bog Burials from Britain and Ireland . In: IM Stead u. a (Ed.): Lindow Man - the body in the bog . British Museum Publications, London 1986, ISBN 0-7141-1386-7 , pp. 181-195 (English).
- ^ Richard C. Turner: Gazetteer of Bog Bodies in the British Isles . In: Richard C. Turner; Robert G. Scaife (Ed.): Bog Bodies - New Discoveries and New Perspectives . British Museum Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-7141-2305-6 , pp. 205-234 (English).
- ^ Raghnall Ó Floinn: Supplementary List of Irish Bog Bodies Noted Since 1995 . In: Nóra Bermingham, Máire Delaney (eds.): The bog body from Tumbeagh . Wordwell Books, Wicklow 2005, ISBN 978-1-869857-77-6 , pp. 217-227 (English).
- ↑ M = male, W = female, D = different, U = unknown / not determinable, ~ = uncertain
- ↑ Sorting taking into account the country
- ↑ Sorting takes place according to the most recent indication of the dating period
- ↑ Replica of the skull