Lost and found: Viking Age human bones and textiles from Bjerringhøj, Denmark

The human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhøj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing for more than 100 years. Recently, an assemblage of bones resembling those recorded at Bjerringhøj—some with adherent textiles—were discovered in a misplaced box in the National Museum of Denmark....

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Veröffentlicht in:Antiquity 2021-06, Vol.95 (381), p.735-752
Hauptverfasser: Rimstad, Charlotte, Mannering, Ulla, Jørkov, Marie Louise S., Kanstrup, Marie
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Zusammenfassung:The human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhøj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing for more than 100 years. Recently, an assemblage of bones resembling those recorded at Bjerringhøj—some with adherent textiles—were discovered in a misplaced box in the National Museum of Denmark. Here, the authors use new skeletal and comparative textile analyses, along with radiocarbon dating, to confirm that the bones are indeed those from the Bjerringhøj burial. This rediscovery offers new data for interpreting Viking Age clothing, including the presence of long trousers, and emphasises the importance of reinvestigating old archaeological collections housed within museums and archives.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.15184/aqy.2020.189