Also, bog bodies are so well preserved that their remains provide an invaluable source of information about things like food, costume and the ancient environment from the remains of their clothing and contents of their stomachs - items that would under normal circumstances rot away without much trace. The Body in the Bog, edited by I.M. Stead, J.B. Bourke and Dan Brothwell. The discovery that he was about 2,300 years old made the dead man famous overnight. Newspapers gave him the ickname, Pete Marsh, a pun on the type of bog he was found in. Scientific research revealed many interesting details about his body and how he may have died.
Lindow man seems to have been killed by several methods.
A knotted cord was found embedded in his neck. It seems to have been used to choke or strangle him. His throat was also cut, and his skull was caved in by heavy blows. All this 'overkill', as well as comparisons to other bog bodies who also seem to have died in an unusually violent way, suggests that his death may have been a sacrifice or some kind of religious ceremony. These bog bodies share many of these same gruesome characteristics, which is why archaeologists believe that they came from the same culture a religious belief that involved human sacrifice to the gods.