LINDOW MAN

The bog body

A Late Iron Age Man

BOG MONSTERS!
What is a bog?
Soft water-logged land.

Why does a bog create mummies?

Chemical composition: preserves soft tissue. Helps delay decomposition. These conditions include highly acidic water, cold temperature, and a lack of oxygen, combining to preserve but severely tan their skin (natural mummification).

More than a thousand Iron Age corpses, so called bog bodies, have been found in bogs in Northern Europe.

A holographic picture of the Lindow Man

The bog where Lindow Man was found (Lindow Moss near Mobberley).

Many bog bodies show evidence of a violent death, and possible ritual or sacrificial killing.

Was Lindow Man murdered?

Lindow Man Mystery

How and why did Lindow Man die?

Meet Pete Marsh

Pete Marsh otherwise known as the Lindow Man is at the centre of a 2,000 year old murder mystery. He was alive when the Romans ruled nearby Manchester and he died a brutal and violent death.

What happened to Lindow man?

Murder victim: Lindow Man aka - Pete Marsh

Gathering the evidence.

What can Archaeology tell us?

Not just about digging things up and writing what you see. Also takes a great deal of science to work out exactly what has been found. For example with the study of bog bodies they use forensics. Part of the fun is working out what happened in the past.

Archeologist

Studies the past by using artifacts to discover clues to ancient civilizations and mysteries.

TRIPLISM
One of the most common Celtic religious symbols is "triplism" - with Lindow Man, much has been made of his apparent triple death:
1) He seems to have been viciously strangled and garrotted-his throat split from one end to the other; 2) His head bears evidence that he was bludgeoned by something like the blunt side of an axe blade; 3) His neck and torso reveal other marks, such as stab wounds, that can be explained by violent events.

But who was he? What do we know about him? And how and why was he killed?

Life in Late Stone Age Britain

The use of Iron was introduced around 700 BC and used for tools and weapons. Gold and other materials used for coins and jewellery. Bigger settlements of roundhouses were built. Built large hill forts.

A Late Stone Age roundhouse (Circular buildings). The Iron Age lasted from about 700 BC to 43 AD.

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