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The highly acidic peat acts as a remarkable preservative, leaving the clothing and skin intact, and creating poignant and memorable images of people of the past. In all, there have been about 700 bodies pulled from European bogs. The oldest bog body is Koelbjerg Woman, recovered from a peat bog in Denmark. the most recent dates to about 1000 AD. Most of the bodies were placed in the bogs during the European Iron Age and Roman period, between about 800 BC and AD 200. http://archaeology.about.com/od/bterms/g/bogbodies.htm Bog Bodies Denmark: Grauballe Man, Tollund Man, Huldre Fen Woman, Egtved Girl, Trundholm Sun Chariot (not a body, but from a Danish bog all the same) UK: Lindow Man Ireland: Gallagh Man Gallagh- Man is one of the few bog bodies with fairly clear evidence of ritual and perhaps violence involved with his death, with two pegs on either side of his body showing he was pinned down, and a band
