The head of an Iron Age man who died almost 2,000 years ago has been scanned in a Manchester hospital to shed light on how he died.
Worsley Man is thought to have lived around 100 AD when Romans occupied much of Britain.
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Bryan Sitch, curator of archaeology at Manchester Museum, said it now appeared the man was bludgeoned over the head, garrotted then beheaded.
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The death of Worsley Man shares some similarities with another Iron Age body found in a Cheshire peat bog in 1984.
Tests on Lindow Man, who lived around 150 years earlier, suggest he had also been garrotted, as well as having his throat slit.
Worsley Man: Hospital scanner probes Iron Age bog death