Editing Lindow Man (section)

===Lindow Moss===
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Lindow Moss is a peat bog in Lindow, an area of Wilmslow, Cheshire, which has been used as [[common land]] since the [[medieval]] period. It formed after the [[Last glacial period|last ice age]], one of many such peat bogs in north-east Cheshire and the [[River Mersey|Mersey basin]] that formed in hollows caused by melting ice.<ref>{{Harvnb|Turner|1995a|p=10}}</ref> Investigations have not yet discovered settlement or agricultural activity around the edge of Lindow Moss that would have been contemporary with Lindow Man, but analysis of pollen in the peat suggests there was some cultivation in the vicinity.<ref>{{Harvnb|Turner|1995a|p=17}}</ref>

Once covering over {{convert|600|ha|acre}}, the bog has now shrunk to a tenth of its original size. It is a dangerous place and an 18th-century writer recorded people drowning there. 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.<ref name="Brothwell13">{{Harvnb|Brothwell|1986|p=13}}</ref> Lindow Moss is a [[Bog#Raised bog|lowland raised mire]], a type of peat bog which often produces the best-preserved bog bodies, allowing more detailed analysis. Lowland raised mires occur mainly in northern England and extend south to the Midlands. Lindow Man is one of 27 bodies to be recovered from such areas.<ref>{{Harvnb|Turner|1995b|p=111}}</ref>