It was hoped that investigations into the contents of the stomach would shed light on the contemporary diet, as was the case with Grauballe Man and Tollund Man in the 1950s.
Once the peat had been removed, their discovery turned out to be a decomposing, incomplete human head with one eye and some hair intact. Forensics identified the skull as belonging to a European woman, probably aged 30–50. Police initially thought the skull was that of Malika Reyn-Bardt, who had disappeared in 1960 and was the subject of an ongoing investigation.
The find was described as "one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 1980s" and caused a media sensation.
For centuries the peat from the bog was used as fuel, and it continued to be extracted until the 1980s, by which time the process had been mechanised.
Sparking excitement in the country's archaeological community, who had long expected such a find, it was hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 1980s.
As a result, human tissues buried in the bog tend to tan rather than decaying. ===Lindow Woman=== On 13 May 1983, two peat workers at Lindow Moss, Andy Mould and Stephen Dooley, noticed an unusual object—about the size of a football—on the elevator taking peat to the shredding machine.
The remains were found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat cutters.
On 1 August 1984, Andy Mould, who had been involved in the discovery of Lindow Woman, took what he thought was a piece of wood off the elevator of the peat-shredding machine.
documentary about Lindow Man broadcast by the BBC in 1985 attracted 10 million viewers. Lindow Man's official name is Lindow II, as there are other finds from the area: Lindow I (Lindow Woman) refers to a human skull, Lindow III to a "fragmented headless body", and Lindow IV to the upper thigh of an adult male, possibly that of Lindow Man.
After the discovery of Lindow Man, there were no further archaeological excavations at Lindow Moss until 1987.
A large piece of skin was found by workmen on the elevator on 6 February 1987.
The final discovery was that of Lindow IV on 14 June 1988.
The interest caused by Lindow Man led to more in-depth research of accounts of discoveries in bogs since the 17th century; by 1995, the numbers had changed to 106 in England and Wales and 34 in Scotland.
The 2008–09 Manchester display, titled Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery Exhibition at the Manchester Museum, won the category "Best Archaeological Innovation" in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology. Critics have complained that, by museum display of the remains, the body of Lindow Man has been objectified rather than treated with the respect due the dead.
The 2008–09 Manchester display, titled Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery Exhibition at the Manchester Museum, won the category "Best Archaeological Innovation" in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology. Critics have complained that, by museum display of the remains, the body of Lindow Man has been objectified rather than treated with the respect due the dead.
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