The so-called Lindow Man (a well-preserved twenty-two hundred-year-old corpse unearthed in a peat bog near Manchester, England, in 1984), presumably a human sacrifice, consumes a burnt bannock cake, a traditional last meal for Celtic sacrificial victims, and is first bludgeoned and garroted, then his throat is slit and he is dropped into a pool of water. (The complexity of this ritual execution indicates, to some archaeologists, that he was an important member of Celtic society, perhaps even a druid. The absence of bodily scars—other than those incurred during the sacrifice—tend to indicate he was of the noble, rather than the warrior, class.)