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Lower Saxony
Ammerland
Bad Zwischenahn

Site of the 1922 Kayhausen Bog Body Discovery

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Lower Saxony
Ammerland
Bad Zwischenahn

Site of the 1922 Kayhausen Bog Body Discovery

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Site of the 1922 Kayhausen Bog Body Discovery

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    March 3, 2024

    A bog body is a term used to describe human remains or complete corpse finds that have been preserved through soft tissue preservation in the acidic environment of a raised bog as well as through the exclusion of oxygen and the effect of humic acids, while the mineral portions of the bones often dissolve.

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      December 31, 2024

      Bog body from Ammerland How the boy from Kayhausen was found 100 years ago. On July 3, 1922, Friedrich Roggemann encountered resistance while digging peat. Piece by piece, he uncovered a body: Roggemann had discovered the boy from Kayhausen.

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        October 1, 2023

        Bog body from Ammerland How the boy from Kayhausen was found 100 years ago. On July 3, 1922, Friedrich Roggemann encountered resistance near the peat ditch. He then uncovered a body piece by piece: Roggemann had discovered the boy from Kayhausen.

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          Location: Bad Zwischenahn, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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