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What was Tollund Man's last meal, 12 to 24 hours before his Iron Age hanging?
Stomach analysis identified an 85 percent barley/oats porridge with flax and knotgrass seeds — substantial but ordinary, not a ritual feast. The Tollund Man was hanged in the late pre-Roman Iron Age, around 405-380 BCE.
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The Iron Age Man Found in a Danish Peat Bog in 1950 With the Rope That Hanged Him Still Around His Neck Tollund Man was discovered in the Bjældskovdal bog in Jutland on 6 May 1950, his face so well preserved that the finders called the police. He had been hanged with a braided leather noose around 405-380 BCE, aged about 40, and buried face-down in the bog. His last meal was barley-and-flax porridge, eaten 12 to 24 hours before death.
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