How Did The Bog Body Die?

In 1952, a body was found in a grass bog, in the town of Windeby, Germany. The owners of the land wanted to cut the bog down for fuel and sell it. Though as they were cutting the bog they found a human body. However when they came across the bog body they stopped digging and saw that the body was damaged, there was damages to one leg, a foot and a hand which was detached from the body. When the body was discovered archaeologists had pieced all of evidence together, which caused many theories to arise and people asking why, how and when did, the mystery bog body die? This Mysteries bog body was the first body found in Windeby, which is why the bog body was named and known as ‘Windeby Girl’.

When, Where and who found Windeby
Girl?

Windeby girl’s corpse was found over 50 years ago in 1952. The bog body was found in Windeby in Germany, which is where her name comes from.

How was Windeby Girl Found?
Windeby Girl was found in Germany by commercial pea cutters doing their job on local land. When the body was uncovered from the bog and Archaeologists got to have a look at the body they state that the body was well preserved in the time over 2000 years of lying in the bogs. The environment that her body was found was perfect because it did not let oxygen in preserving the body and not letting the effects change Windeby Girls body overtime.

Objects found with Windeby Girl and their significance
Their wasn’t as such items found with Windeby girl, however fifteen yards away from where Windeby’s girl body was found, pea cutters also found a naked body of a middle-aged man who had been strangled with a hazel branch and secured in place with wooden stakes, the two bodies being found so close together around the same period of time lead to speculation that the two had been killed as punishment for an adulterous affair.
Although there is no actual evidence suggesting that the two bodies had a relationship with each other it is just a theory.

Theory’s about how Windeby Girl Died
The theory about Windeby girl was a victim of an unnatural death. She had have been blindfolded, and half her head had been shaved. When her body was found and examined there were no signs of trauma, and evidence from the skeleton suggests she may have died from repeated bouts of illness or malnutrition. As for the woollen blindfold covering her eyes there is a theory that the band probably slid down over her eyes as a result of the body’s shrinkage, and had likely been used to hold her hair back or to cover her eyes after death. And that her half shaven head was probably due to the lack of oxygen. But all these are theory’s no one actually knows what happened to her body and what the blindfold and shaven head
means.

Conclusion
Windeby girl was from Germany and named after the town she was found in (Windeby). However there is one last twist to this story that Gill-Robinson explains best “My examination of the skull and the pelvis suggests that this person was a young male, Although I’m not really sure that I was the first person to test the idea, I’m certainly the first to have explored it in the 21st century, using modern technology and perspectives.” So Windeby girl isn’t a girl at all. Archaeologists and scientists can determine the age and state of Windeby Girl and can determine before her death, how long she was killed before being buried and many other details. This would not happen if it wasn’t for the modern technology we have today.