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Bodies from the Bog

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By James M. Deem

Rebound by Sagebrush

Copyright © 2003 James M. Deem
All right reserved.
ISBN: 1417602864

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From Chapter 1:
"On the last Saturday of April 1952, near the village of Grauballe,
Denmark, a group of men were digging in a raised bog they had
partially drained. They dug past the upper layer of peat moss into a
rich layer of compact dark-brown peat perfect for fuel, their shovels
slicing brick-sized chunks. They stacked the peat on the surface. When
it had dried, it would be burned for heat in a fireplace or furnace.

"That afternoon, though, the men made an unexpected discovery. About
three feet below the surface their shovels struck the head of a dead
man. His eyes were closed, his face partially flattened by the weight
of the peat. His skin was as brown as the earth that surrounded him.
The peat cutters quickly reported their find to a local doctor who
wondered if it might not be a bog body, that is, a type of natural
mummy: the preserved body of a person who was buried in the bog
perhaps thousands of years ago. A number of such bodies had been found
in Denmark, so the doctor called an archaeologist at the Moesgård
Museum of Prehistory in nearby Aarhus.

"The next morning Professor P. V. Glob arrived at the site and
examined the body of what has come to be called the Grauballe Man...."



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