The life and death of a Druid prince
Subtitle: the story of Lindow Man, an archaeological sensation
By: Anne Ross and Don Robins.
Contributors: Robins, Don.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Lindow Man.; Iron age -- England.; England -- Antiquities.
Description: On Aug. 1, 1984, a workman harvesting peat from Lindow Moss bog near Manchester in the English Midlands made a gruesome discovery: embedded in the sodden peat was the upper half of a slain man, fresh enough to interest the local police. The victim, forensic inspection revealed, had been bludgeoned, garroted with a ceremonial cord, drained of blood and drowned. Scientists soon determined, however, that Lindow Man's executioners were already far beyond the reach of the law; their victim had died some two millenniums ago, carbon analysis showed, and his flesh had been accidentally preserved by the oxygen-free acidic moisture of the peat. Violence there surely had been, but the evidence suggested that the man had gone willingly to his death as an act of sacrifice.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-176) and index.