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==Discovery== [[Image:Lindow Moss 2006.jpg|thumb|The area of Lindow Moss where Lindow Man was discovered]] A year later, a further discovery was made at Lindow Moss, just {{convert|820|ft}} southwest of the Lindow Woman. On 1 August 1984, Andy Mould, who had been involved in the discovery of Lindow Woman, took what he thought was a piece of wood off the elevator of the peat-shredding machine.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brothwell|1986|pp=13β14}}</ref> He threw the object at Eddie Slack, his workmate. When it hit the ground, peat fell off the object and revealed it to be a human foot. The police were called, and the foot was taken away for examination.<ref name="Brothwell13"/> At the same time Rachel Pugh, a trainee journalist for ''The Wilmslow World'', was tipped off about the discovery. At the urging of her editor, she cycled out to the site of the discovery and persuaded the two men to show her where the foot had been excavated. Recognising the possible historical significance of the find, she told the diggers to stop work at once, and alerted Rick Turner, the Cheshire [[County Archaeologist]], who subsequently succeeded in finding the rest of the body, which later became known as Lindow Man.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pugh |first1=Rachel |title=Remembering the discovery of the Lindow Man in Cheshire |url=https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/24683236.remembering-discovery-lindow-man-cheshire/ |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="Brothwell 1986 14">{{Harvnb|Brothwell|1986|p=14}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Joy|2009|p=5}}</ref> Some skin had been exposed and had started to decay, so to prevent further deterioration of the body, it was re-covered with peat. The complete excavation of the block containing the remains was performed on 6 August. Until it could be dated, it was moved to the [[Macclesfield]] [[East Cheshire NHS Trust|District General Hospital]] for storage.<ref name="Brothwell 1986 14"/> As the body of Malika Reyn-Bardt had still not been found, it was initially thought possible the body might be hers, until it was determined to be male, and radiocarbon dated.<ref name="Turner 13"/> The owners of the land where Lindow Man was found donated the body to the British Museum, and on 21 August it was transported to London.<ref>{{Harvnb|Joy|2009|p=7}}</ref> At the time, the body was dubbed "Pete Marsh" by [[Middlesex Hospital]] radiologists, a name subsequently adopted by local journalists, as was the similar "Pete Bogg".<ref>{{Harvnb|Stead|Bourke|Brothwell|1986|pp=12, 16}}</ref><ref name="Connolly 17">{{Harvnb|Connolly|1985|p=17}}</ref> The find was announced to the press during the second week of the investigation.<ref name="Joy 12">{{Harvnb|Joy|2009|p=12}}</ref> As the best-preserved bog body found in Britain, its discovery caused a domestic media sensation and received global coverage. Sparking excitement in the country's archaeological community, who had long expected such a find, it was hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 1980s.<ref name="BM press release"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Connolly|1985|p=15}}</ref> A [[Q.E.D. (BBC TV series)|''Q.E.D.'']] documentary about Lindow Man broadcast by the [[BBC]] in 1985 attracted 10 million viewers.<ref name="Joy 12"/> Lindow Man's official name is Lindow II, as there are other finds from the area: Lindow I (Lindow Woman)<ref>{{Harvnb|Turner|Scaife|1995|p=8}}</ref> refers to a human skull, Lindow III to a "fragmented headless body", and Lindow IV to the upper thigh of an adult male, possibly that of Lindow Man.<ref name="British museum">{{citation |title=Lindow Man |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/l/lindow_man.aspx |publisher=[[British Museum]] |access-date=28 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623055326/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/l/lindow_man.aspx |archive-date=23 June 2010 }}</ref> After the discovery of Lindow Man, there were no further archaeological excavations at Lindow Moss until 1987. A large piece of skin was found by workmen on the elevator on 6 February 1987. On this occasion, the police left the investigation to the archaeologists. Over 70 pieces were found, constituting Lindow III. Although the bone was not as well preserved as that of Lindow Man, the other tissues survived in better condition.<ref>{{Harvnb|Turner|1995a|pp=13β14}}</ref> The final discovery was that of Lindow IV on 14 June 1988. Part of a left leg and buttocks were found on the elevator, from a site just {{convert|50|ft}} west of where Lindow Man was found. Nearly three months later, on 12 September, a right thigh was discovered in the peat on the bucket of a digger. The proximity of the discovery sites, coupled with the fact that the remains were shown to come from an adult male, means that Lindow IV is probably part of Lindow Man.<ref>{{Harvnb|Turner|1995a|p=18}}</ref>
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