Girl of the Uchter Moor
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The Girl of the Uchter Moor is a bog body found in January 2000 in Uchte in Lower Saxony, Germany.
When the police first found the parts of the body in 2000, they thought it belonged to a murder victim. The body had splintered by the moss-gathering machinery. Police investigated for a while until they had to declare the case unsolved and archive the results.
In January 2005 a local worker found an old hand in the bog. Police investigated again but now realized that the body was very old. They called for an archaeologist.
The body turned out to be 2700 years old. It is a body of a teenage girl at the age of 16-20 who would have lived around 650 BC.
In June 2005, the whole body had been recovered except for one shoulder blade. The hair was intact. The body was briefly on display in the local state museum.
A small web community has grown around the Girl of the Uchter Moor which includes artist's impressions of what the girl may have looked like and fiction about her life before the tragic accident.
