Tollund Man
The well-preserved head of Tollund Man
The Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, on the Jutland peninsula, in Denmark. The man’s physical features were so well preserved that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim. Twelve years before Tollund Man’s discovery, another bog body, Elling Woman, had been found in the same bog. Though the cause of death was determined to be hanging, scholars believe the man was a human sacrifice, rather than an executed criminal, because of the arranged position of his body, and the fact that his eyes and mouth were closed. Dis… Continue Reading (5 minute read)
the UK DWP still claim he is fit for work.
NOVA produced a fascinating documentary on bog corpses and how well they are preserved over centuries. Well worth a look.
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bog/](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bog/)
> 40 different kinds of seeds
My local grocery store doesn’t even have 40 different kinds of produce.
Bog bodies are awesome. The police once reported finding a body in marshland to the press. Upon reading the article, a local man turned himself in and confessed to murdering his wife and dumping her body a couple of decades earlier. The police response was:
“That’s nice. The body we found was three thousand years old”
He was incredible to see in person. I swear he was going to blink
Edit i saw the ones in the Dublin museum