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Lindow Man: The Body in the Bog

 

Lindow Man at the British Museum

 

 

You can't visit the British Museum without seeing the display of Lindow Man as well. His well-preserved partial body was discovered near Manchester in 1984.

Part of the Lindow Man display at the British Museum, showing a facial reconstruction

 

The cover of a book about Lindow Man by Don BrothwellPreviously, Lindow Man was exhibited in the middle of the lobby at the top of the second floor staircase--hardly an appropriate site for a 2,000-year-dead man. 

Now he's been transplanted to a more secluded and quiet spot, where tourists are less likely to gawk. 

In fact, it's so secluded you may have to ask a guard for directions. Lindow Man has been placed in a kind of corner, with dim lighting:

Lindow Man at the British Museum

 

Unfortunately, the transplanted exhibit cannot compare to those of many other bog bodies in northern European museums (such as Tollund Man at the Silkeborg (Denmark) Museum or Yde Girl and the Weerdinge Men at the Drents Museum (Assen, the Netherlands) and the excellent bog find displays at the Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch (Oldenburg, Germany), but it is an improvement over the previous version. Worth a stop if you are in his neighborhood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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