INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 98, 3 August 1880, Page 3

INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

« The Copenhagen correspondent of an English paper writes : — " An in terestin^ snd probably unique discovery has been made close to the p.t&wu of Banders in Jutland, of a dating probably from the sixth "*^or seventh century, containing the remains of a woman who had been buried in her richest attire, it being still possible to trace the dress, which had been intei woven with gold Mi read. Across the chest were laid two bands with a kind of gold lace, on the top of which again were laid some ornaments composed of g ass beads, some having an outer shell of gold leaf, and several cut diamonds, as well as a small perforated silver coin. To the left ot the body were found » knife, a pair of scissors, a small whetstone (for needles), and a small glass cup, which was broken in pieces. In the tonil* were also found ihe remains of a wooden pail with iron bands, which had contained the food supposed necessary to support the deceased on her journey to Hell. The discovery affords another pi oof of the excep tionally high position occupied by the -women in Scandinavia during the heathen times, in comparison with nearly all other heathen countries. body had evidently originally been enclosed in a coffin of rough oaken planks. Great interest is taken in the scientific examination of the silver coin, by which the actual period . may be at least approximately ascertained." ..