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kimerajamm
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A great deal of work was carried out, particularly during the 19th century, to reclaim large areas of Chat Moss. The bog threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829. The line "floated" on a wood and stone foundation. The M62 motorway, completed in 1976, also crosses the moss, to the north of Irlam. In 1958, the severed head of what is believed to be a Romano-British Celt, possibly a sacrificial victim, was discovered in the eastern part of the moss, near Worsle
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