Huldremose Woman

[2] Lacerations on one of the feet were thought to be post-mortem injuries inflicted by a shovel until they were then evaluated to have happened near the time of death.

The dietary analysis consisted of two samples of the gut contents, revealing that the woman's final meal had been rye bread.

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.

Huldremose woman wore several layered sheep skin capes with the woolly sides turned outward.

[5] 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.

[1][2] In a 2009 study led by Dr. Karin Frei, Huldremose Woman and the set of clothing she wore underwent strontium isotopic analysis.

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.

The clothing of Huldremose Woman
Additional photograph
Huldremose woman on display at the National Museum of Denmark