Meet the Huldremose woman!

Discovered in a peat bog in Denmark, the remains of this individual date to around 2,000 years ago during the 2nd century BCE. Analysis showed that she was over 40 when she died and that a sharp tool had severed her right upper arm. As with other bog bodies, the Huldremose woman incredibly preserved and her
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“body with skin, hair, clothes and stomach contents” were intact.
Her clothing consisted of a woolen skirt, a checked woolen scarf, and two skin capes. The skirt had been tied at the waist using a leather strap that was woven into the waistband. The scart sat around her neck and was fastened using a pin made from bird bones. The capes were made of sheep skin made from 11 lamb skins. The cape had wear as estates by the 22 patches that were sown in. One of the holes”contained a fine worked bone comb, a thin blue hairband and a leather cord, all wrapped in a bladder.” It is thought that it served as an amulet. Her hair was tied in a woolen cord that had been wrapped around her neck. Another wool cord hung from her neck with two amber beads.
Researchers did find an impression of a ring but one was not found as it may have been initially removed when the body was discovered. The other garments she wore were made of plant fibers and much of the textile decomposed in the bog. While the clothing today looks brown, analysis shows that the skirt was originally blue and the scarf red. Her stomach contents showed that her last meal was made up of ground rye with seeds as well as animal tissue. Although it is unknown why she died, it is heavily believed that she was a sacrifice as with other bog bodies.

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