BOG BODIES FROM IRELAND
TWO FAMOUS BOG BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND IN IRELAND. BOTH NEAR EACHOTHER AND FROM THE SAME TIME PERIOD. THEY ARE CLONYCAVAN MAN AND OLD CROGHAN MAN.
DISCOVERYDISCOVERED IN CROGHAN NEAR DUBLIN IN 2003. FOUND IN PEAT BOG WITH NO HEAD OR
LOWER BODY. |
DISCOVERYWAS DISCOVERED IN CROGHAN NEAR DUBLIN IN 2003. FOUND WHEN WORKERS WERE CUTTING
THE PEAT BOG WITH MACHINES. THE PEAT CUTTING MACHINE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE CUT OFF THE LOWER BODY. |
CAUSE OF DEATHOLD CROGHAN MANS DEATH IS ONE THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS OVERKILL. HE HAD THIN
TREE BRANCHES THREADED THROUGH HOLES CUT IN HIS ARMS BY A KNIFE. HE GOT STABBED IN THE CHEST THEN HIS NECK WAS SLICED OPEN WITH THE SAME KNIFE. HE WAS TORTURED BEFORE HAVING HIS HEAD CUT OFF AND THEN HIS LEGS LEAVING ONLY HIS TORSO. |
CAUSE OF DEATHFORENSIC ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT CLONYCAVAN MAN DIED IN SUMMER AND PROBABLY DIED
FROM A HARD HIT TO THE HEAD WHICH BROKE HIS SKULL. AFTER HIS DIED HE WAS DISEMBOWLED AND ALL HIS INTERNAL ORGANS WERE TAKEN OUT. |
FACIAL RECONSTUCTION/ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONUNFORTUNETLY AS OLD CROGHAN MAN HAS HEAD WE HAVE NO IDEA TO WHAT HIS FACE WOULD
HAVE LOOKED LIKE. HOWEVER BY HIS ARMSPAN ARCHAEOLOGIST THINK HE WAS 6 FT 6 WHICH IS 1.98M TALL. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A GIANT EVEN TODAY. |
FACIAL RECONSTUCTION/ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONFORENSIC ANTHROPOLIGISTS AND FORENSIC ARTISTS AT DUNDEE UNIVERSITY USED A STATE
OF THE ART COMPUTHER SYSTEM TO RECREATE THE FACIAL APPEARANCE OF CLONYCAVAN MAN AND THEN ADDED GLASS EYES, SKIN TONE AND HAIR. |
THEORIES
THE CURRENT HELD THEORY ON THESE 2 IRISH BOG BODIES ARE THAT THEY ARE FAILED KINGS. THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE FACT THAT THEY HAD WELL MANICURED HANDS SHOWING NO HARD WORK WHICH MEANT THEY WOULD'VE BEEN OF HIGH STATUS. THEIR NIPPLES BEING CUT OUT ALSO PROVES THIS AS SUCKING THE NIPPLES WAS A SIGN OF KINGSHIP. SEE THE LINK FOR THEORY AND EVIDENCE TO THIS:
http://bogbodies.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/clonycavan-man-and-old-croghan-man/
http://bogbodies.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/clonycavan-man-and-old-croghan-man/