Huldremose Woman
The wife of Huldre Fen is a bog body from the 2nd century BC, which was found in 1879 Huldremoor near Ramten in the circle of Aarhus in Denmark peat cutting. It is in the care of the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen, and has not yet been shown publicly. In recent years there have been plans that bog body in Djursland museum or an exhibition in Stenvad Mosebrug exhibit center. Reconstructions of the clothing can be found in various museums, including in Silkeborg.
Discovery
On May 15, 1879 came the laborers Niels Hansen, who stood for the Ramtener school teachers JV Nissen peat, on which lie about one meter below the surface remains of the corpse. Hansen informed the archaeologically interested teachers Nissen, who immediately interrupted his work and the archaeological digging in the presence of the district bailiff from Grenå, a pharmacist and a police officer. For further investigation, the body was brought into the barn of a nearby farm, where Nissen she cleaned with a scalpel. When undressing the corpse was clear that there existed no rezentes crimes and that there must be a historical find. The medical officer Steenberg wrote a report to the Royal Museum of Nordic Antiquities in Copenhagen and promised to send the garments to the museum. Nissen was washing clothes and air dry. This procedure survived the garments apparently without taking damage. The body was entombed and buried in the church cemetery Ørum. The Copenhagen Museum wired back and also asked for the surrender of the corpse. Two days after the funeral, the body was again exhumed and stored in the morgue of the hospital in Grenå. On June 4, 1879 Fund was then transferred by steamer to the museum in Copenhagen. Location: 56 ° 26 ' 40 "N, 10 ° 37' 50 " O56.4443610.630581Koordinaten: 56 ° 26 ' 40 "N, 10 ° 37' 50" E
In 1907 the Danish National Museum, through the body to the Anatomical Institute of the University of Copenhagen for further investigation. On both sides of the Fund fell into oblivion until 1976 and was again found in a box under a table. This was followed by in-depth medical examinations and after the corpse was transferred back to the Danish National Museum.
Description
The dead man lay with his legs drawn up on the back and was loaded with a tree branch. The woman's body is almost completely preserved. Before her death, the woman's right arm was nearly severed by a blow. To the shoulders of the woman was wearing a cape made of sheepskins to the head and neck a woolen scarf and the abdomen a woolen skirt. In the fur cloak a woolen hair band and a comb was found. Other items of clothing such as a blouse or shoes were not observed during the excavation. In order to remove the fur cloak from the corpse of this was cut. The scarf was also cut into two parts and only after he had been removed from the body was visible that he was only closed under the left arm with a bone needle.
Findings
The wife of Huldre Fen was at the time of her death over 40 years old. Examination of the stomach contents yielded remains of rye and vulgar Spörgel, which suggests that the last meal of the woman possibly consisted of a bread or porridge. In addition, traces were found of animal connective tissue, suggesting meat in the food.
A radiocarbon dating revealed that she died in the 2nd century BC and came into the bog. A sample examined in the 1970 sample from the corpse gave a time of death between 200 BC and 350 AD A more recent 2007 sample studied from the clothes were in the period between 350-41 dated BC, this result being due to the recent research methods has a higher probability. The woman died thus in the Scandinavian Pre-Roman Iron Age.
Clothing
The exceptionally well-preserved pieces of clothing the woman of Huldre Fen is an important document for the fashion of the first pre-Christian centuries in Northern Europe.
About the shoulders, the woman wore two cloaks from sheepskin. The top she turg with the fur side outwards and the lower with the fur side inward. The upper mantle has a width of 170 cm and a height of 82 cm and is stitched from five rectangular and two smaller triangular pieces of sheepskin. The fur pieces used are of different colors and were composed so that a decorative pattern. In addition, is sewn from dark sheep leather on the flesh side at the top of an edge enclosure. The inner cape is sewn with 150 x 80 cm ² only slightly smaller and from seven to eight mostly rectangular sheepskin pieces as well as 22 smaller patch of goat and deerskin. Both capes have an asymmetrical shape and a pronounced neck. To the head and neck she wore a plaid scarf made of woolen cloth, which was put together with a needle from bird bones. The scarf has a length of 139-144 cm and a width of about 49 cm. A long wool skirt, featuring woven plaid pattern, handed her down to the ankles and was held together at the waist with a leather belt. With a 75 cm long, woven wool band they probably stayed together their hair. A blouse or other outerwear is not get it - this could be passed by the special preservation conditions for organic material in the bog but when they made from plant fibers, such as linen, existed.
A strontium isotope analytical study of the wool fibers from the clothes revealed that the wool came from three different provenances. Thus came a part of the wool from local production. The other two types of wool had isotopic patterns that are typical of grew up in northern Scandinavia sheep. Perhaps this wool was negotiated as raw material or as already processed semi-finished product, such as spun yarn from more distant regions. In her one about 9 cm long, carefully decorated comb were found from bones and two amber beads.