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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lindow man
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(British Museum) The body of a man discovered in 1984 in a bog, Lindow Moss in Cheshire, in a remarkably well preserved state because of the surrounding peat (he was immediately named Pete Marsh or Lindow Pete in the popular press). The man had been stripped naked except for a fox-fur band on his left arm; he was then struck on the head from behind and was garrotted with a cord around his neck, after which his throat was cut. Radiocarbon dating revealed that he lived at some point between about 300 BC and the same number of centuries AD. It is thought probable that he was a sacrificial victim in the rites of the Celtic *druids. The severed head of a woman, similarly preserved, had been found nearby in 1983.
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