County - Londonderry

Location - Dunmore bog, Lissan Parish

Date of discovery – 1881

Description
Mr John Browne, Drapersfield sent the following note: When in Cookstown on Saturday evening last, the 11th inst. I called at the police station, to have a look at the wooden plate and spoon which had lately been found beside a human skeleton in Dunmore bog. The constable who showed me the plate and spoon mentioned that the skeleton was discovered, about the depth of three spits of turf or so from the surface, in the mountain bog; it was in a space of about three feet in length and apparently drawn up, or contracted as with cold, and partly wrapped in blankets: and there had evidently been two blankets – one coarse and strong, the other finer, and that the plate seemed to have been over the face. Both the plate and the spoon are very coarsely made, having no trace of either ornament or carving of any description, except an attempt that a W on a handle of the spoon where it joins the bowl.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)

Location - Tintagh townland, Lissan parish

Date of discovery – 1825

Description
In 1825 in the townland of Tintagh, in a moss near the limestone quarry in the mountain, 2 feet under the surface of the water, was discovered the body of a full-grown female, covered with a rug or caddy, not quite decayed by Bryan Lennon of the same townland.
(taken from Lindow Man –The Body in the Bog by I.M Stead, J.B Bourke, Don Brothwell ISBN 0-7141-1386-7)