Visit Pete Marsh in the British Museum? – Not right now!
Pete Marsh is someone I do try to visit every so often, just to see how he’s getting on.
He’s about two thousand years old, so I like to make sure he’s okay.
But on a recent visit I found he’d upped sticks!
Pete Marsh is a well preserved male body (well, the upper half, anyway) found in a bog in Cheshire in 1984. The bog gave him his name – Peat Marsh, geddit?
He must have been some kind of sacrifice, having been killed in three ways – strangled, his throat cut, and knocked on the head as well. (Either that or he …read more
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