The bog bodies of Lindow Moss are incredible - it's not fashionable for the English to acknowledge their Celtic past let alone claim it as part of their identity but the discovery of Lindow Man (or Pete Moss as he was named in the local press) generated an enormous amount of interest.

He was in Manchester Museum for a while before those pesky southerners kidnapped the poor lad an took him to London, and even though I was uneasy about the manner of his display, it was fascinating to come face to face with one of our ancestors 'in the flesh' so to speak(actually, more like 'in the leather' as the tannin in the peat had turned him into a bit of coarse, hairy orange leather).