1,300-Year-Old Textile Fragments Found in Viking Woman’s Grave - Archaeology Magazine
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The research team says the condition of the finds is "simply magical."
1,300-Year-Old Textile Fragments Found in Viking Woman’s Grave - Archaeology Magazine
Viking textile fragment VARDE, DENMARK—La Brújula Verde reports that textile fragments have been discovered in a Viking woman’s eighth-century tomb at the Skonager site in Western Jutland. The rare bits of cloth were found attached to the front and back of two scoop brooches, known for their concave shape, by researchers from the Vejle Conservation Center. Metallic salts released by the brooches are thought to have inhibited the microbes that wo…
The preservation of tissues over the centuries is considered a rare phenomenon due to the fragility and organic nature of this type of material. Therefore, finding a trace preserved for about 1,300 years is a particularly significant discovery. An example was identified in the tomb of a young woman of the Viking era. The fragment of tissue found on the site brought new information about the clothes used by the Nordic populations of that period a…
A Viking Woman’s Brooches Preserved Fragments of Her 1,300-Year-Old Clothing
Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near Varde in Western Jutland. Textiles normally disappear from Viking graves because plant and animal fibres […] The post A Viking Woman’s Brooches Preserved Fragments of Her 1,300-Year-Old Clothi…
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