Cashel Man
Cashel Man is a bog body from Bord na Móna Cúl na Móna bog near Cashel in County Laois, Ireland. He was a young adult male who had been intentionally covered with peat after death. The crouched figure was recovered after being partially damaged by a milling machine in 2011. Radiocarbon dating places him around 2000 B.C.
The legs were found to be protruding from the skin of the corpse, as well as being exceptionally preserved. The remaining part of the body inside of the bag-like skin was not as well preserved. Some of the body that had been disturbed by the milling machine before the body had been seen were later recovered, including part of the head, which had closely cut hair.[1] The body was later moved to the National Museum of Ireland for examination. The man had a peri-mortem broken arm, along with having his back broken in two places and cut. The body was accompanied by wooden stakes, suggesting ritual sacrifice.[2]