#lindow man

[thesilicontribesman]

Lindow Man 1st Century CE 'Bog Body', The British Museum, London

Lindow Man is a well-preserved human body found in a peat-bog at Lindow Moss, near Manchester, in 1984. He died a violent death, sustaining many injuries before he was placed face down in a pool in the bog.

He was about 25 years old, 1.7m (5ft 6ins) tall and weighed 60-65kg (9.5-10st).

He had done very little hard, manual work, because his fingernails were well manicured.

His beard and moustache had been cut by a pair of shears.

His last meal probably included unleavened bread made from wheat and barley, cooked over a fire on which heather had been burnt.

[gwinwe]

thought this hat would suit you (gouache on paper)

[opium-duchess]

Lindow II

[quotesfrommyreading]

Mediterranean writers were keen to emphasise that the Celts practiced human sacrifice, something Romans found particularly abhorrent, and suggested that Celtic priests consulted human entrails for messages from the gods. Were it not for the archaeological evidence recovered from the bogs of northwestern Europe, we could explain all this as negative propaganda, examples of the Romans demonising their enemy. However, a variety of prehistoric bodies that have been dredged from the wetlands of Ireland, Denmark and southern Scandinavia have shown that human sacrifice was indeed carried out at times; the broad similarity of injuries recorded suggest that these executions were all part of the same ritual practice.

Comparison of these so-called ‘bog bodies’ has indicated a form of execution which is sometimes referred to as the threefold death. A good example from Britain is that of a young man found preserved in Lindow Moss in Cheshire. Here, the individual had, at some point in the first century AD, been struck violently across the head, before being strangled with a tightly wound cord and having his throat cut. Finally, his lifeless body was deposited face down in the bog.

  —  The Celts: Who Were They, Where Did They Live, & What Happened After The Romans Left Britain?

[betterbewitching]

He’s cute. He’s tall. He suffered from intestinal parasites. His last meal was unleavened bread. He’s been dead for two thousand years. I didn’t say a name, but he popped into your head... didn’t he?

..........the Lindow Man :)

[mostly-history]

The Lindow Man (2 BC – 119 AD), found in a peat bog at Lindow Moss (Cheshire, England).

Other body parts have also been recovered from the peat bog, as well as the Lindow Woman.  This bog body was deposited face-down, probably during the late Iron Age or early Roman period.  He was violently killed, perhaps in a ritual: his killers strangled him, hit him on the head, and cut his throat.  (The V-shaped cut on the top of his head can be seen in the second picture.)  He was a healthy male in his mid-twenties, and as his body shows little evidence of heavy work, it is likely that he was of high status.  His last meal was one of charred bread.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Lindow Man. Date: 2-119 B.C. Place of origin: Lindow Moss Period/culture: Iron Age; Romano-British

[gwinwe]

lightweight, gouache on paper