The Lindow Man was discovered in 1984, preserved in a peat bog in Cheshire, and he remains one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds ever made in Britain.

This is Pompeii. But actually, in Britain, a millennium earlier and instead of a volcano, we have a catastrophic fire and a fortunate river. 3,000 years ago, in the Late Bronze Age, people lived here in stilt houses built directly over a slow-moving river, until one day, a fire broke out.