Lived during the Iron Age, close to Lindow Moss, near Mobberley, Cheshire in the mid 1st Century AD. [This was the same time as the Romans had established their fort on the banks of the River Irwell (78 AD]. Radiocarbon dating shows that he died between 20 AD and 90 AD.

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. It helped invigorate study of British bog bodies, which had previously been neglected.

Many bog bodies show signs of being stabbed, bludgeoned, hanged or strangled, or a combination of these methods. In some cases the individual had been beheaded. Some bog bodies, such as Tollund Man from Denmark, have been found with the rope used to strangle them still around their necks.

Methods that would minimize suffering were chosen to kill people found in peat bogs. Prehistoric people discovered in European peat bogs often show signs of horrifically violent deaths: marks on their bodies indicate that they were strangled, hanged, stabbed or beheaded.

It was headless and has a vestigial thumb. Some scientists believe that this was the body of the Lindow Woman. A theory described the killings of both Lindow I and II as ritual sacrifice attributed to the Celtic enclaves.

These may run beside streams or even over them if the ground below is honeycombed with watercourses that have eroded the peat but are not yet visible on the surface. These undercut holes can be very dangerous when covered by snow because you can fall in and break a leg or get swept away by rushing water.

Quick Tips

1. Make yourself as light as possible—toss your bag, jacket, and shoes.
2. Try to take a few steps backwards.
3. Keep your arms up and out of the quicksand.
4. Try to reach for a branch or person’s hand to pull yourself out.
5. Take deep breaths.
6. Move slowly and deliberately.

Quicksand can kill! It’s true you don’t sink in quicksand until you’re submerged. Humans and animals typically float in water, so if you are standing upright, the furthest you’ll sink in the quicksand is waist-deep. Hypothermia occurs rapidly in wet quicksand, or you can die in the desert when the sun goes down.

Nope. Quicksand—that is, sand that behaves as a liquid because it is saturated with water—can be a mucky nuisance, but it’s basically impossible to die in the way that is depicted in movies. That’s because quicksand is denser than the human body.

Quicksand has a density of about 2 grams per milliliter. At that level of density, sinking in quicksand is impossible. You would descend about up to your waist, but you’d go no further. Even objects with a higher density than quicksand will float on it—until they move.