Editing Lindow Man (section)

===Lindow Woman===
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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. They removed the object for closer inspection, joking that it was a dinosaur egg. Once the peat had been removed, their discovery turned out to be a decomposing, incomplete human head with one eye and some hair intact.<ref name="Distillations"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Brothwell|1986|p=11}}</ref>

Forensics identified the skull as belonging to a European woman, probably aged 30–50.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brothwell|1986|pp=11–12}}</ref><ref name="Turner 13">{{Harvnb|Turner|1995a|p=13}}</ref> 
Police initially thought the skull was that of Malika Reyn-Bardt, who had disappeared in 1960 and was the subject of an ongoing investigation.<ref name="Brothwell12">{{Harvnb|Brothwell|1986|p=12}}</ref> While in prison on another charge, her husband, Peter Reyn-Bardt, had boasted that he had killed his wife and buried her in the back garden of their bungalow, which was on the edge of the area of mossland where peat was being dug. The garden had been examined but no body was found. When Reyn-Bardt was confronted with the discovery of the skull from Lindow Moss, he confessed to the murder of his wife.<ref name="Distillations"/><ref name="Turner 13"/>

The skull was later [[radiocarbon dating|radiocarbon dated]], revealing it to be nearly 2,000&nbsp;years old. "Lindow Woman", as it became known, dated from around 210&nbsp;AD.<ref name="Brothwell12"/> This emerged shortly before Reyn-Bardt went to trial, but he was convicted on the evidence of his confession.<ref name="Distillations"/><ref name="Turner 13"/>