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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lindow - Ancient Trackway in England in Cheshire

Submitted by vicky on Friday, 27 June 2003  Page Views: 25000

Multi-periodSite Name: Lindow Alternative Name: Lindow Man, Pete Marsh
Country: England County: Cheshire Type: Ancient Trackway
Nearest Town: Wilmslow  Nearest Village: Knolls Green
Map Ref: SJ810800  Landranger Map Number: 109
Latitude: 53.316586N  Longitude: 2.28666W
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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Lindow submitted by Vicky : Lindow Moss near Wilmslow where two or possibly three bog bodies including Lindow Man or Pete Marsh (now in the British Musuem) were discovered in the 1980s. A prehistoric trackway was also reported in the area in the 19th century. The layer of sphagnum peat in which the bodies lay has now almost completely disappeared due to commercial peat cutting on the Moss. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Trackway in Cheshire

This possible prehistoric trackway on the west side of Lindow Moss was recorded by a Mr Norbury in the 19th century. In 1884 he wrote:

‘one Peter Cash found, somewhere on the Mobberley side of Lindow, what appeared to be a roadway made of logs and timber placed end to end, with sleepers across laid close together, and this I am told continued for some length up the Moss, and I think it was at the bottom of the bog, but of this I am not sure.’ A similar prehistoric trackway was found during excavations for the second runway at Manchester Airport on the Oversley Farm site. Further details can be found in the Cheshire Archaeology Newsletter Spring 1999.

Lindow Moss has a number of other interesting features dating from the Neolithic through to the Iron Age. During a recent survey of the wetlands in Cheshire a small scatter of Neolithic flints was discovered on one of the sand islands to the west of the Moss. Radiocarbon dates from charcoal found in the area have given a date of c3970-3640BC, suggesting that clearing and burning was taking place at this time. Also it was not far from here (at GR: SJ82508150) that the body of Lindow Man, or Pete Marsh as he is more commonly known, and another male known as Lindow III were discovered in the 1980s.

References

W.Norbury “Lindow Common as a Peat Bog: Its Age and its People”, TLCAS Volume 7, 1884.

M.D.Leach et al “The Wetlands of Cheshire, NW Wetlands Survey 4”, 1993-1995.

Forthcoming - V & P Morgan 'Prehistoric Cheshire', Landmark Publishing February 2004.
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Lindow Man - Jody Joy by Andy B on Thursday, 12 September 2019
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When Lindow Man was found by peat diggers in 1984, his discovery provoked worldwide media interest. Almost 2,000 years ago he met a horrific death and shortly after he was killed his body was placed in a bog. It was so well preserved that it was possible to make out facial features such as furrowed brow and his short hair and beard. Scientific research has revealed many details about his discovery, many questions still remail unanswered. This book tells the story of Lindow Man, the best preserved human remains from ancient Britain.
Publisher: British Museum Press
Publication Date: 2009

https://www.academia.edu/404732/Lindow_Man
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The veneration of water in 12 objects, number two Lindow Man and the Bog People by Andy B on Sunday, 16 March 2014
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Ross Parish writes: I'm not sure it is wise describing the remains of people as objects, although some would argue many museums do. Indeed, the display of such objects has caused some controversy and one of these bog relics has understandably now been removed from exhibit.

On the 13th May 1983, commercial peat cutters on Lindow Moss near Wilmslow, Cheshire made a grim discovery, parts of a human skull with hair! Bizarrely, overhearing this discovery was Peter Reyn-Barn, who had long be suspected of murdering his wife in the 1950s but no evidence was ever found. He thought that the ‘jig was up’ and confessed, stating that he had buried her in his back garden which backed onto the bog! The remains were later to be dated to 250AD. He was charged even though this evidence was revealed before the trial, he had confessed after all. Over a year later 1st August 1984, these peat cutters found an even grimmer discovery: the remains of another body, strangled, throat cut and head beaten in. Again not Beyn-Fern wife, her body was never found, but a man of his mid 20s, the most complete bog person found in the UK. The evidence of two bodies in this area of peat bog was strong evidence of a ritual significance to the peoples in the area over 2000 years ago.

More at
http://insearchofholywellsandhealingsprings.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/the-veneration-of-water-in-12-objects-number-two-lindow-man-and-the-bog-people/
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Lindow Man - The Verdict by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 10 May 2011
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See here: http://learningmanchester.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/lindow-man-verdict-resource.pdf
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Re: Lindow by Anonymous on Thursday, 05 March 2009
He was sacrifices 2 the "gods" by the Celtics!!! Duh!!!
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Re: Lindow by PaulM on Sunday, 18 February 2007
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Knutsford Guardian 14 February 2007

"Curse of the bog man"

A short article following up on the announcement that Pete Marsh will be "coming home" in 2008.

Apparently "most of the team working on the peat bog on 1 August 1984...have died or suffered life-threatening illnesses."

Shades of Lord Carnarvon...
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