An Iron Age body, found in a Cheshire bog in the summer of 1984, has been radiocarbon dated to 550 BC. It is now being stored at the British Museum at 4°C. A computerized tomography scanner and a nuclear magnetic resonance scanner were used to examine the condition of his internal organs; the contents of his stomach were still intact. A report of the forensic analysis is given. For long-term preservation, the Museum is intending to use freeze-drying. Bran fragments in the stomach were analyzed by electron spin resonance to determine the highest past temperature to which the plant material had been subjected; the last food had been bread and not porridge. -- AATA