Sheepskin coat (5th c. BC), Osterode

[Kelvin Wilson]

Does anyone have more information on a coat sewn together from four sheepskins (with the wool on the inside), in which the body of a teenage girl was deposited in the 5th century BC? Place: Dröbnitz bog near Osterode. Formerly kep in the Prussia Museum in Königsberg, and published in Marija Gimbutas' "The Balts" (1963).

I have photographs of the in- and outside of the coat (or what it looks like more: mantle)... if someone could help me post them on this forum, I will send them on!

Danke,


Kelvin Wilson

[S. Crumbach]

Hello Kevin,
I have got the information a cape was found with die body.
(w. van der Sanden, Mumien aus dem Moor)
The Prussia museum was destroy in the 2. Wourldwar. Alle find are lost.

[Kelvin Wilson]

Great, great, Sylvia! I have the book (in fact, the reconstruction drawing of the Emmer-Erfscheidenveen man is mine... I remember having photos taken of myself in my underwear to get the figure right!) yet hadn't realised it contains so much information! The comb, the repairs... it's all there!

Thanks


Kelvin Wilson

[S. Crumbach]

I have made the drawing of the Emmer-Erfscheidenveen man
It ist great!