Editing Lindow Man (section)

{{Short description|Bog body of an Iron Age man found in England}}
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[[File:Lindow Man 2023.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Lindow Man on display at the [[British Museum]] in 2023]]

'''Lindow Man''', also known as '''Lindow&nbsp;II''' and (in jest) as '''Pete Marsh''', is the preserved [[bog body]] of a man discovered in a peat [[bog]] at [[Lindow Moss]] near [[Wilmslow]] in [[Cheshire]], North West England. The remains were found on 1 August 1984 by commercial [[peat]] cutters. Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss; [[Lindow Woman]] was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered.<ref name="Distillations">{{cite web |first1=Dave |last1=Sammut |first2= Chantelle|last2= Craig |title= Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries |date= July 23, 2019  |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/bodies-in-the-bog-the-lindow-mysteries |website=Distillations |publisher= [[Science History Institute]] |access-date=August 28, 2019 }}</ref> The find was described as "one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 1980s"<ref name="BM press release">{{citation |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/news_and_press_releases/press_releases/2008/lindow_man.aspx |title=British Museum announces year long loan of Lindow Man to Manchester |publisher=[[British Museum]] |year=2008 |access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref> and caused a media sensation. It helped invigorate the study of British bog bodies, which had previously been neglected.

Dating the body has proven problematic, but it is thought that he was deposited into Lindow Moss, face down, sometime between 2&nbsp;BC and 119&nbsp;AD, in either the [[British Iron Age|Iron Age]] or [[Roman Britain|Romano-British]] period. At the time of death, Lindow Man was a healthy male in his mid-20s, and may have been of high social status as his body shows little evidence of having done heavy or rough physical labour during his lifetime. There has been debate over the reason for his death; his death was violent and perhaps ritualistic.

The recovered body has been preserved by [[freeze-drying]] and is on permanent display at the [[British Museum]], although it occasionally travels to other venues such as the [[Manchester Museum]].