Like most of the bog bodies found in Denmark the woman from Huldremose was fully clothed. She wore a skirt of wool, a scarf and two skin capes. The woman was more than 40 years old when she ended up in the bog. She was an old woman by Iron Age standards of life expectancy.

Huldremose Woman, or Huldre Fen Woman, is a female bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten, Jutland, Denmark. Analysis by Carbon 14 dating indicates that she lived during the Iron Age, sometime between 160 BCE and 340 CE. The mummified remains are exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark.

Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

In 1879, the body of a woman was found by workers digging peat turfs at Huldremose, Denmark. Examination of the body revealed the woman died a violent death 2,000 years ago. She became known as the Huldremose woman and is today considered one of the best-preserved bog bodies ever discovered.

The Haraldskær Woman (or Haraldskjaer Woman) is the name given to a bog body of a woman preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark, and dating from about 490 BC (pre-Roman Iron Age). [1][2] Workers found the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate.

Jan 4, 2023 · In 1879, Niels Hanson, a school teacher in Ramten, was digging peat turfs from a peat bog near Ramten, Jutland, Denmark. While doing this, he recovered a bog body of an elderly Iron Age woman. The body became known as “Huldremose Woman” or “Huldre Fen Woman”.

Feb 22, 2025 · A recent archaeological discovery in Northern Ireland has revealed that a set of well-preserved human remains discovered in a peat bog belongs to a young woman who lived more than 2,000 years ago. The discovery, now known as the “Ballymacombs More Woman,” challenges earlier assumptions that the person was a teenage boy.

Feb 20, 2025 · Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find.

Jun 23, 2024 · Bog bodies are corpses that are mummified when they are submerged in highly acidic bodies of water with low temperatures and oxygen levels, such as peat bogs — and dozens of them have been accidentally uncovered across Europe over the centuries.

Feb 21, 2025 · Found in a Northern Irish bog, a 2,000-year-old skeleton shocked experts. Research shows she was decapitated, and a woman. Was she a victim of ritual sacrifice?