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"The man was not a peasant: his finger nails were manicured and his moustache carefully clipped with a razor."
His body was painted and naked apart from a foxfur amulet. His last meal was a multi-grained bread and the presence of mistletoe pollen in his stomach has lead to speculation that it may have been a druidic sacrifice.
" Lindow man is our best piece of evidence for the practise of human sacrifice in Celtic Britan..the young man had been pole-axed garotted and his throat cut"
"Certain Irish mythological stories allude to a ritual threefold killing of the sacral king - by wounding drowning and burning. It is tempting to link this triple injuries to the Lindow Man; he was hit on the head, strangled and his throat cut"
Information taken from "Dictionary of Celtic myths and legends" by Miranda J Green published 1992.
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