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If Lindow Man was found in isolation, maybe his death could be regarded as a simple murder. However, with the other bodies recovered from the same bog, it grows less likely. Even more so when you compare his death to that of similarly dated European bodies in Europe. Garotting,neck cutting, nakedness,similar final meals plus the even more auspicious 'manicured fingernails' which were unlikely to be found in Iron Age ordinary Joe. Two new bog bodies have also been recovered in Ireland within the last year or so--again, they are Iron Age & both had suffered horrific deaths and were buried on ancient land boundaries. Both men,again, had the tell-tale unworn hands/nails of high status. One man was massively huge-the pathologist estimates his height at at least 6ft4-something else that marked him as 'different'-like lindow II's extra thumb or the slight foot deformity of Yde girl.
As for the um, student who says with utter finality that no human sacrifice ever occurred-back to the books, sonny. Look up 'dedication burials' at iron Age hillforts for one. There also seemed to be a trend of rather dodgy early bronze age burials (ie at least one was victim bristling with arrows!) found at the entrances of henge monuments-Stonehenge being the most noteable of these,though not the only one.
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