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A British man lived 2,000 years ago. He was killed four times. Today, you can see exactly what he looked like.

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In 1984, a peat worker in Cheshire pulled what looked like a piece of wood off the conveyor belt. When the peat fell away, it was a human foot. The rest of him had lain in the bog for 2,000 years.

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Lindow Man was killed four times. A blow to the head. A garrote. A knife. A drowning. Not crime. Ritual.

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His hands had no calluses. His nails were polished. His beard was trimmed with shears. This was no peasant. This was someone the community had chosen.

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His last meal was a charred griddle cake and mistletoe. Mistletoe was the most sacred plant in Druid religion. He didn't eat it by accident.

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Rome described pre-Roman Britons as savages. Lindow Man's body says otherwise. His clothes were tailored. His hair was kept. His community had law, religion, language, and order.

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The peat bog stopped time. No oxygen, no bacteria. For 2,000 years, Lindow Man's skin, hair, and stomach contents stayed intact. The bog kept him for us.

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Forensic scientists reconstructed his face from his skull. He's not a stranger. Look at him and you see someone you know. A neighbour. A relative. One of us.

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You can visit him. The British Museum, Room 50. Free. A 2,000-year-old British man you can look in the face.

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The peat is mostly gone now. Drained. Cut. Burned. The bogs that kept Lindow Man are vanishing. Every bog body recovered is a story saved from disappearing.

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Rome wrote the Britons down. The peat wrote them up. Lindow Man is the rebuttal that lay in the ground for 2,000 years waiting to be read.

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Did you know they found a 2,000-year-old British man in a peat bog in Cheshire? His face is still recognisable. They reconstructed what he looked like. He's at the British Museum, you can go and see him. proudofus.co.uk/stories/lindow-man

There's this Iron Age guy they pulled out of a bog in 1984. He was killed four ways. Blow to the head, garrote, knife, drowning. They think it was a ritual. He'd eaten mistletoe right before. Wild story. proudofus.co.uk/stories/lindow-man

The Romans called pre-Roman Britons savages. Then in 1984 they found this perfectly preserved British man from 2,000 years ago. Tailored clothes. Trimmed beard. Polished nails. Turns out the Romans were the ones doing PR. proudofus.co.uk/stories/lindow-man

You can go to the British Museum and look a 2,000-year-old British man in the face. Lindow Man. Pulled from a Cheshire bog, perfectly preserved. Free entry. Room 50. Go.

Found this short film about a 2,000-year-old British man whose body was so well preserved by peat that you can see his face today. Six minutes. Worth a watch. proudofus.co.uk/stories/lindow-man

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