... although human sacrifice had ended in Rome a century earlier, gladiatorial games and feeding people to lions were regular sport whilst many thousands of conquered Celts in Gaul were victims of Roman atrocities, such as cutting off their hands and feet and leaving them to die slowly. Accusations of human sacrifice provided the Romans with every excuse for their own unlicensed cruelty. ...people may have been selected for sacrifice because they had been 'touched by the gods'. The Romans reserved their comments about sacrifice to the Celts and Germans, with no reference to such practices in the British Isles. Just like the Continent, there are bog bodies which indicate that human lives were taken. Three bog bodies (or parts of them) were found in Lindow Moss in Cheshire, dating from the beginning of the Roman period. The best preserved of the three was a man who had been hit on the ...

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