Man from Gallagh

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The Gallagh Man in the National Museum of Ireland
The upper torso of the Gallagh man

The man of Gallagh is an Iron Age bog body arising from work in a 1821 Moor at Castleblakeney in Town Country Gallagh ( Irish Gallach ) in County Galway in Ireland was found. It is kept in the Irish National Museum in Dublin and was the first almost completely preserved bog body to be shown publicly in a museum.
Probable location: 53 ° 26 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 42.9 ″  W Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 42.9 ″  W

Findings

The Gallagh man was found in 1821 at a depth of about 3 meters below the moor surface. The adult man lay on his left side and was wrapped in a knee-length fur cloak made of deer skin, which was fastened with strings at the neck. Around his neck was a stick made of willow, which was probably part of a device with which he was strangled . There were two sticks above him that were used to hold the body down in the mud. After it was found it was buried again by the finders and dug up again from time to time for onlookers. In 1929 the find was sent to the Royal Dublin Society and then to the Royal Irish Academy , where it was preserved by drying . If, according to the finder, the corpse was still in an exceptionally good state of preservation when it was found, it deteriorated due to the repeated digging in and out and drying. As a result of drying, the body became increasingly deformed and all the hair came off the skin. Only fragments of the fur cape have survived.

A 14 C dating revealed that the man was between 470 and 120 BC. Chr. Died.

literature

  • Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor. The prehistoric and protohistoric bog bodies from northwestern Europe . Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , pp. 72, 87, 97, 99 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).

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personal data
SURNAME Man from Gallagh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallagh man
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bog corpse
DATE OF BIRTH between 6th century BC BC and 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 470 BC BC and 120 BC Chr.
Place of death near Castleblakeney , Ireland