Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than c. 1,600 years ago!
Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615
National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me
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Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615
National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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The maker would have spent 100 of hours making the hood
https://canmore.org.uk/site/2980/st-andrews
https://www.archaeologyonline.org/Documents/TheOrkneyHood.pdf
So is Orkney itself, what a beautiful world of Neolithic life went on up there😍😍😍.
B: I definitely misread 'likely belonged' as 'allegedly belonged' on the first pass and made myself giggle. Like who is charging a 1500 years-dead person for their childhood fashion crimes? 😅
Challenging lazy stereotypes about our ‘unsophisticated’ ancestors.