I've had a few friends ask me if I know anything about these "trollen wheels" or "Trelleborg braids": the short answer is that I'm pretty sure they're modern, contrary to nearly anything you'll read on the internet ( Read more... )

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Update to my early Iron Age musings: according to Ulla Mannering, Goran Possnert, Jan Heinemeier, and Margarita Gleba's "Dating Danish textiles and skins from bog finds by means of 14C AMS" in Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010): 261-268, the Huldremose woman's clothing has been redated to 210-41 (cape) and 210-30 BCE (woven gown), so she' ( Read more... )

Have been poking around with ways to secure my earliest-period clothing in more-period style, as the ring-belt stopgap has finally become persona-non-grata in my kit. ( Long, but with links to bog bodies, and a poll! )