In August of 1984, commercial peat cutters working near Wilmslow, about a half-hour drive south of Manchester, England, discovered a dead body in the moss. The corpse was determined to be a 25-year-old man with a closely shorn beard and well-manicured nails. He had suffered two or three heavy blows to the head, and had sustained a cut throat and a fractured rib. But this wasn’t a fresh corpse: His body had been laying in that peat bog for nearly 2,000 years.
The “Lindow Man” is just one of at least 2,000 bog bodies recovered from Europe’s peatlands. They date from the Mesolithic period, which ended in Europe between 8,500 to 5,500 years ago, all the way up through World War II.
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