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Lindow Man

Lindow Moss, Cheshire

A man preserved in a peat bog for 2,000 years.

In 1984 peat workers at Lindow Moss found a human foot. It belonged to a young man preserved in the bog for about 2,000 years.

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When
c. 1st century AD
Where
53.3200, -2.2600
Group
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Visiting

Lindow Man is at the British Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

On 1 August 1984, peat workers at Lindow Moss, near Wilmslow in Cheshire, were feeding peat into a shredder when Andy Mould lifted something off the elevator. It was a human foot.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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