Near his body were the remnants of a woolen cloak ... Learn more about him in Tollund Man. Peat cutters accidentally struck his head with their shovels. Knowing of Tollund Man and other finds ...

The Tollund Man, Denmark’s most famous bog body, has been precisely dated for the first time, revealing that he lived and died around the same period as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.

First transmitted in 1954, Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler discuss the well-preserved body of Tollund Man, a 2000-year-old Dane found in a peat bog. A collection of programmes charting the ...