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Lindow Man  
The British Museum   

British Museum home  Room 64  |  Room 62/63  Lindow Man  |  Visiting London

 

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

 

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...unsuitable for photography unless you are using high-ASA film or a digital camera. The glare from the display lights makes it hard to get a good photo, though.

Since the last time I saw him, he looks much more dried out. 

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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