List of bog bodies

This is a list of bog bodies in order of country in which they were first discovered. Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the Northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Reports of bog bodies surfaced during the early 18th century.[1]

In 1965, the German scientist Alfred Dieck catalogued more than 1,850 bog bodies, but later scholarship revealed much of Dieck's work was erroneous.[2] Hundreds of bog bodies have been recovered and studied,[3] although it is believed that only around 45 bog bodies remain intact today.[4]

  1. ^ Gill-Robinson, Heather (2005). The Iron Age Bog Bodies of the Archäologische Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany.
  2. ^ van der Sanden, Wijnand; Eisenbess, Sabine (2006). "Imaginary People". Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. 36 (1): 111–122. ISSN 0342-734X.
  3. ^ Lange, Karen E. (September 2007). "Tales From the Bog". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008.
  4. ^ Gill-Robinson, Heather (2005). The Iron Age Bog Bodies of the Archäologische Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany. p. 48.