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Last meal of sacrificial bog body was surprisingly unsurprising, researchers say Elizabeth Djinis © Photograph by Robert Clark, Nat Geo Image Collection Tollund Man was hanged with a leather cord and cast into a Danish bog. Silkeborg, Denmark. Bog bodies are some of history’s most enigmatic murder victims: preserved in the peat bogs of northern Europe and Britain, their bodies can retain detailed facial expressions and reveal the methods by which they were dispatched some 2,000 years ago.  Tollund Man is perhaps the best known of these victims. Discovered in 1950 by peat diggers in north-central Denmark, the Iron Age man in a wool cap still bore, around his neck, the leather noose that was used to strangle him around 350 B.C. 

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