The Tollundman's site

Distance: 24.92 Km

www.museumsilkeborg.dk/tollundmanden |

The 2.400-year-old Tollundman was found in Bjældskovdal in Tollund near Engesvang during peat digging in 1950. Initially, the police were called as it was suspected that it might be a case of murder, but the "case" was quickly handed over to archaeologists from the National Museum.

Examinations of the body of the Tollund man showed that it was an approx. 30-year-old man who had strangled himself with the leather cord that he still had around his neck.

Later scans of the bog body have shown that he has probably been hanged.

Today, Tollundmanden is exhibited at Museum Silkeborg.

In the immediate vicinity of where the Tollundman was excavated, another body had been found earlier in the 1930s - "Ellingpigen". She too can be seen today at Museum Silkeborg.

The site at Bølling Lake is marked with a board.