#bog body

[diggingupbonespastandpresent]

Huldremose Woman

Or Huldre Fen Woman, is a female bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten, Jutland, Denmark.

On 15 May 1879, the body was discovered by an unknown worker working in Ramten, Denmark, after digging a meter through the peat.

Clad in wool and sheepskin, this over-40 warrior or sacrifice—her right arm severed—offers a gritty glimpse into the intriguing past of Northern Europe.

Analysis by Carbon 14 dating indicates that she lived during the Iron Age, sometime between 160 BCE and 340 CE. The mummified remains are exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark. The elaborate clothing worn by Huldremose Woman has been reconstructed and displayed at several museums.

Unlike many other bog bodies, which are often found naked, the Huldremose Woman was found clothed with an array of accessories. Analysis of these items, including the rare evidence of plant fibre textile, has shown that peoples of the Scandinavian Early Iron Age had knowledge of and used a wide but previously unrecognized range of textile weaving and dyeing technologies, as well as animal skin technologies. Her clothing has undergone extensive analysis by scientists at the Danish National Research Foundation's Center of Textile Research and the National Museum of Denmark.

Huldremose woman wore several layered sheep skin capes with the woolly sides turned outward. These were of a complex construction:

"The two skin capes are made from well-prepared, curly fleeces. The outer cape is the largest, measuring 82 cm in height and 170 cm in width . It is constructed of five primary, rectangular skin pieces, with two minor triangular pieces under the yoke. Most pieces are from dark sheep skin, but on the fur side, it has an insertion of four light goat skin pieces. On the flesh side, it has an upper, front lining of dark sheep skin, which is a unique detail. The inner cape is slightly smaller, measuring 80 cm in height and 150 cm in width . It is constructed of 7-8 primary sheep skin pieces, mostly rectangular and 22 secondary patches of sheep, goat and deer skin. Both capes have an asymmetrical design with a slanting neckline."

She also wore a wool plaid scarf, fastened by a bird bone pin, and a wool plaid skirt. Analysis by scientists at the National Museum of Denmark has shown that the colour of the skirt was originally a blue or purple plaid, while the scarf was a red plaid. Chemical dye analyses showed the use of natural plant dyes and mordants and revealed that threads of at least 5 colours were woven to create the complex plaid patterns. Impressions on the skin of the Huldremose Woman, as well as a small amount of surviving degraded fibres, suggest that below her wool clothing, she wore a white inner garment made from plant fibres that reached from the shoulders to below the knees. The type of plant fiber is unclear but other evidence from the time period suggests that it could have been made of nettle. A horn comb, a leather thong, and wool textile headband were found as well in what appears to be a pocket on the inner cape, made out of a bladder.

In a 2009 study led by Dr. Karin Frei, Huldremose Woman and the set of clothing she wore underwent strontium isotopic analysis. This research indicated that the wool scarf has a local provenance. The wool skirt was found to be made of wool from at least three different provenances, including a local signature and a signature compatible with northern Scandinavia (e.g. Norway or Sweden). The plant fibre garment and the Huldremose Woman herself likely have a non-local origin, again showing compatibility with northern Scandinavia. In general, the study points to the possibility that textiles were either traded or brought as raw materials far more commonly and over longer distances than previously assumed.

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The Tudor Intruders

[rabbit-harpist]

made for my best friend, the greatest bog buddy i could ask for. she hopes someday to be a great bog body as well

[lastwordsofdutchschultz]

Text-to-speech language models are often more expressive than real people, or anyway elicit more sympathy from me. This comes, somehow, from the same place as my sympathy for mummies, particularly bog bodies. I don’t know how a real living person can ever hope to be that pathic or emotionally touching.

[bugz-r-really-cool]

Bog bodies >>>

[naomiknight-17]

Watching a video about the Gebelein man (bog body/mummy) and the scientists are doing an MRI on him

And there's the mummy, laying on his side curled up on the MRI bed thing, and there's a little medical sheet draped over his ancient dessicated hips

Like they wanted to respect the privacy of this long-dead man. They put the little privacy paper blankie on him, just like they would a living person

And I dunno, but something about that is just adorable

You are dead and mummified, and we are scanning and studying you, but oh! Let us give you a little blankie, we don't want you to be embarassed

[thesilicontribesman]

Lindow Man 1st Century CE 'Bog Body', The British Museum, London

Lindow Man is a well-preserved human body found in a peat-bog at Lindow Moss, near Manchester, in 1984. He died a violent death, sustaining many injuries before he was placed face down in a pool in the bog.

He was about 25 years old, 1.7m (5ft 6ins) tall and weighed 60-65kg (9.5-10st).

He had done very little hard, manual work, because his fingernails were well manicured.

His beard and moustache had been cut by a pair of shears.

His last meal probably included unleavened bread made from wheat and barley, cooked over a fire on which heather had been burnt.

[vaderscape]

Hi guys this is bog Barbie u can dress her up in her Viking wool wear and she was my final project in a college course art school at public universities is so unserious

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

[amymurphy]

Bog bodies are fascinating and I wanted to commonplace about them. This is the result !

[kmz-art]

Been kind of obsessed with Bog Bodies and their history lately, and I’m considering doing a polished art series “Strange Saints” inspired by the ones that I find most compelling

Anyone interested in seeing more stuff like these sketches?

Please I’m searching for my people

[t-u-r-n]

Leave my body to the bog.

[terebelli]

2400-year-old bog body. Tollund Man Denmark

[victusinveritas]

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

Tollund Man Collage 2

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

[technicallyeldritch]

when they think you’re a vampire because your body hasn’t decomposed but you were simply #chilling in the peat