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Lindow Man's Death
When Lindow Man was first discovered there were many theories surrounding his death. Scientists and Archaeologists alike speculated over theories such as murder, a robbery gone bad, others believed that he was a scapegoat for misfortune that had befallen his community. However now the most widely accepted theory is that of a ritual sacrifice. Lindow man was hit on the head, his throat slit and strangled. This three-fold death lead archaeologists to believe that Lindow man was a sacrifice to appease three Druid Gods; Teutates ,Teranis, and Esus. Each god preferred demanded sacrifices in specific ways; drowning, burned or hung, and stabbed respectively, as such Lindow Man’s death would have appeased all three gods. The head wound was done by a blunt object and caused skull fragments to lodge themselves into the brain, due to swelling scientists are able to tell that Lindow man was still alive after the intial blow. The ligature marks associated with strangulation could have come from a necklace of some kind so and shrunken in the peat to look like a garrotte (a thin rope used for strangulation). Due to the excellent preservation of Lindow Man’s body scientists were able to identify a piece of charred bread in his stomach. This lead to another theory in that a giant piece of bread was baked, with a little bit burnt. The bread would have been broken up into small pieces and whoever chose the piece that was burnt would be the sacrifice. Other disproved or less likely thoeries include that Lindow man was either a coward of a sexual pervert, from Tactius book Germania “//Cowards and poor fighters and sexual perverts are plunged into the mud of marshes with a hurdle on their heads”//, there was also a theory that Lindow man was a slave however as explained in other sections Lindow Man’s hands did not bear any sign of manual labour. Lindow Manmedia type="custom" key="10128157" width="320" height="320" align="right"