bog body

English

Galagh man, a bog body

Noun

bog body (plural bog bodies)

A human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
- 1996, D. Brothwell, European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation, Konrad Spindler, Harald Wilfing, Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Dieter zur Nedden, Hans Nothdurfter (editors), The Man in the Ice, Volume 3: Human Mummies, Springer, page 161,
  Records of bog body discoveries extend back to 1640, this date referring to a find in Shalkholz Fen in Schleswig Holstein (Glob, 1969).
- 2003, Arthur C. Aufderheide, The Scientific Study of Mummies, Cambridge University Press, page 176:
  The presence of particles of Sphagnum in a sample of stomach contents of a bog body has been cited as evidence that the victim drank bog water with her/his last meal (Fisher, 1998).
- 2014, Matt Cardin, editor, Mummies around the World, ABC-CLIO, page 34:
  Recently excavated bog bodies have been intensively recorded, analyzed in great detail, and conserved for long-term preservation and museum display.
Synonym: bog person

Translations

human body naturally mummified in a peat bog

Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: veenlijk n
Finnish: suoruumis
French: homme des tourbières
German: Moorleiche (de) f
Italian: mummia di palude f
Russian: боло́тная му́мия f (bolótnaja múmija)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: mosslik (sv) n, mosskropp c

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