The One Certainty of Human Existence

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This man met a violent end. And I think the curators at the Manchester Museum feel that today. Their story is still need telling. It's been almost 40 years since the Lindomans body was found in Lindomoss. He's now on display at the British Museum in London. His body is kept in a case, in a gallery that focuses on British and European history. We're very, very removed from mortality. Most people's first encounter with some human remains will be in a museum.

In the summer of 1984, a local newspaper reporter outside of Manchester, England, got a tip from the police. A foot had been found in a nearby bog.

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