In 1946 peat diggers in the southern Borremose, Himmerland, Denmark found a body in the peat bog. His body was found a half a meter below a layer of birch sticks. The body was well preserved and mummified due to the peat bog.
He was 1.55 m (5'1") and carbon dating done on the body showed he had lived during the Nordic Bronze Age around 700 BCE. He had two sheepskin coats and a woven cap beside him. His stomach contents had various seeds of different kinds knotweed, common spurrey, sheep's sorrel, lambsquarters and animal hair and peat moss leaves (these two likely being containments). It's likely he had been murdered. He had a 36 cm (14") rope with a slipknot around his throat. It was revealed with further examination of the body that he had a crushing blow to the back of his skull and his right femur had been broken.
SOURCES:
Mummipedia Wiki
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