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When a well-preserved human torso was discovered by a peat cutter in the Lindow Moss of the English Midlands on August 1, 1984, it set off an archaeological investiga tion as exciting as any detective story. Using state-of-the-art technology and pos sessing expert knowledge of ancient Celtic customs and beliefs, Dr. Anne Ross and Dr. Don Robins reconstruct the rich life and violent death of the 2,000-year-old who came to be known as Lindow Man and was hailed as the archaeological discovery of the decade. A fascinating series of investi gations revealed that Lindow Man was a Druid nobleman and priest, ritually mur dered in a spectacular Celtic May Day cere mony, sacrificing his young life to appease the gods following a brutal invasion by the Roman army in what has been called “the darkest hour in Britain’s blackest year.” As the facts emerge, Celtic Britain under the Roman occupation comes sharply into focus—especially the grim determination of the Romans to destroy the powerful and mysterious Druid reli gion. Caught up in this human tragedy, one can truly come to know the heroic man who gave his life to save his people and his culture, and who now speaks from the watery grave where he lay mute for nearly twenty centuries. The Life and Death of a Druid Prince: The Story of Lindow Man, an Archaeological Sensation, is both a thrilling human drama and a spellbinding scientific detection. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A DRUID PRINCE The Story of Lindow Man, an Archaeological Sensation ANNE ROSS and DON ROBINS SUMMIT BOOKS NEW YORK * LONDON * TORONTO SYDNEY * TOKYO * SINGAPORE SUMMIT BOOKS Simon 6- Schuster Building Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 Copyright © 1989 by Anne Ross and Don Robins All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Originally published in Great Britain by Rider, an imprint of Century Hutchinson, Ltd. summit books and colophon are trademarks of Simon ir Schuster Inc. Designed by Edith Fowler Manufactured in the United States of America 10 987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ross, Anne, Ph. D. The life and death of a Druid prince : the story of Lindow Man, an archaeological sensation / Anne Ross and Don Robins, p. cm. “Originally published in Great Britain by Rider”— T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 1. Lindow Man. 2. Iron age—England. 3. England—Antiquities. I. Robins, Don. II. Title. GN780.22.G7R67 1989 936.2—dc20 ISBN 0-671-69536-3 90-9616 CIP Contents authors’ note 7 PROLOGUE The Riddle of the Blackened Bread 9 one The Silent Witness 15 two Face to Face with a Druid 34 three Lovemios Revealed 53 four The Fox’s Earth 60 five The Black Year 79 six The Golden Twist 101 EPILOGUE The Triple Echo 128 APPENDIX ONE The Druids 130 APPENDIX TWO Celts and Germans 157 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 168 BIBLIOGRAPHY 170 INDEX 174
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