User:DuggsterDan

Hi if you learning about the Tollund Man at school or collage this is whati think happened to him

The Tollund Man

The Tollund Man was found in a peat bog on the Tollund Fen in Denmark in may 1950, as two men were for peat. He was found with a rope noose around his neck and other objects.

The Tollund man might have been found in the peat bog because he could have been hung poisoned or maybe hung.

The Tollund man might of died of hanging because German tribes hung traitors from trees which explains why he had a rope noose around his neck. But if he was a traitor why was he buried with a neck ring which was a offering to the spring goddess. Even though he could have been hung why wasn’t his neck broken.

However the Tollund man could have been poisoned because he had eaten some soup at least twelve hours before he died. But the Tollund man had healthy heart and organs, but he also had some grown wisdom teeth and these appear in people around the age of twenty years old. But if it was this that killed him why did he have very few clothes like a hat and smooth hide belt.

Alternatively he could of died of drowning because if he was walking he could of walked on top of the bog because sometimes bogs are covered up with mud so he might not of realised and carried on walking. If so he would have started to sink which caused him to drown. But on the other it doesn’t really explain why the rope noose was around his neck.

So in conclusion I think that from the evidence, I think that he was hung from the trees and that the rope noose snapped which explains why his neck wasn’t broken and why the rope was frayed at the end. And then he fell into the bog and got stuck in the peat which is soft when wet and sunk and drowned.

soz but I completly disagree. I think he was a slave who was going to be sacrificed but he tried to run away so they hung him which was the german custom for tratiors or cowards and put him in the peat bog. he couldn't of fallen because he was in th traditional position for someone who was sacrificedl, curled up and apparently sleeping ￼