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StoneGloves Mar 3, 2010 15:33:55
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Bone would dissolve in the acidity, probably. One might expect to see carved decoration on the logboats but they seem plain. There was fabric excavated from the Danish barrows - see P.V.Glob for details.

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tiompan Mar 3, 2010 15:56:40
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StoneGloves wrote:
Bone would dissolve in the acidity, probably. One might expect to see carved decoration on the logboats but they seem plain. There was fabric excavated from the Danish barrows - see P.V.Glob for details.
Yep bone hasnt' survived well ,only teeth . There was a wooden figurine from Ballachullish ,and decoration on wooden implement were what i ws thinking of . Clothing materials did survive in Loch tay but presumably not designs ,if there were any .And it was only I.A. There were some materials from the B.A. cist in Sutherland found last year but the hilarious baas up the local polis made may have put paid to that .

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baza Mar 4, 2010 22:44:35
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StoneGloves wrote:
There was fabric excavated from the Danish barrows...
The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen has on show the Bronze Age clothes of a woman buried in an oak coffin and the clothing of an Iron Age woman murdered and deposited in a bog.

You can see them in two short videos (with English commentary):

http://www.natmus.dk/sw59875.asp Bronze Age

http://www.natmus.dk/sw59880.asp Iron Age