Cloneycavan+and+Old+Croghan+Bodies

__**Cloneycavan Man and Old Croghan Man**__


 * __Discovery__**

The discovery of Cloneycavan Man and Old Croghan Man in 2003 sparked much debate and talk of the interesting topic of Bog Bodies. On May 2003, Kevin Barry discovered a huge find whilst making a drain near //Scoil Bhride Croghan// [school]. The digger, shocked to find a body with no head or legs, immediately called the //Gardai// [Irish Police]. The physical appearance of the body was so well-preserved it was initially thought it was a recent murder. The body soon became to be known as Old Croghan Man.

Only three months before the discovery of Old Croghan Man, it was that peat cutters whilst working in Clonycavan [near Dublin] a body was dropped off from the machine where the workers found it.

The state of the bodies was in good condition and was preserved accidentally as archaeologists believed that the murders did not intend to preserve the two bodies.
 * __State & Type__**

Archaeology and Science reveals about their appearance that they were in their twenties and were quite healthy. Research and tests conducted on the nails of the bodies showed that they had eaten iron-rich foods such as meat. Old Croghan Man was 6 feet 6 inches tall and Cloneycavan Man was 5 feet 2 inches tall; this height in the time-period [iron-age] was extremely tall and were in comparsion much larger to people at their time. Clonycavan Man had a gel-like substance made of vegetable gel in his hair, shaping his hair into a Mohawk like style. This is the hairest forms of hair gels known of and archaeologists believe the presence of this gel indicated that Clonycavan Man was of High-Class.
 * __Archaeology And Science__**

Their diet mostly consisted of meat and vegetables and had a good diet. The bodies were 2500 years old and were in the iron-age period. Scars on lungs indicated he [Old Croghan Man] had suffered of pleurisy and was tortured before his death. The bodies fingerprints indicated from the hiow clear they were that much labor work wasn't done in their life and indicated that they were of high-class. Old Croghan Mans last meal was wheat and buttermilk
 * __Religious Beliefs, Diet, Culture, Time Period, Health__**

__**Death**__ They were murdered; Old Croghan Man was stabbed in the chest and his arms had been cut off. Clonycavan Man was thought to also had been murdered as his skull had been open by a sharp implement [thought to be an axe] striking his head 3 times. Brains pieces were found on top of his head. RadioCarbon Dating showed his death to be around 392 BC to 201BC. This makes him around 2,300 years old+


 * __Sources;__**
 * 1) __http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=6020344&jid=ARD&volumeId=16&issueId=01&aid=6020336__ - **Cambridge Journals Online; Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 16 Issue 1 -** **Iron Age bog bodies of north-western Europe. Representing the dead**
 * 2) [] - **Scoil Bhride Croghan**
 * 3) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0117_060117_irish_bogmen.html - **National Geographic**