[MR] Fwd: [SCA-Laurels] FW: [Norsefolk_2] Womens straps from 9th c Yorkshire

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In a message dated 2/20/2006 11:37:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
val_org at hotmail.com writes:

>Subject: [Norsefolk_2] Womens straps from 9th c  Yorkshire
>Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:33:50 +1100
>
>An  emergency archaeological dig occurred near Doncaster UK in 2001 when  a
>single female interment was found during the site survey for a new  sewerage
>line. It's the Aldwick-leStreet site.
>
>Penelope  Walton Rogers and Greg Speed have published their findings,
>including a  set of mismatched brooches and the textiles preserved  behind
>them.
>
>http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/med/2004/000
00048/00000001/art00003&unc
>
>The  full article is available in PDF for free.
>
>Each brooch had two  linen straps at the hinge end, one on top of the other,
>with another at  the pin's point end. The linen was a fine 42Z by 42Z weave,
>with raws  edges turned inside and the final width of the linen strip  only
>4mm.  Well, actually the right brooch had only one finished  strap on the
>bottom, the other 'strap' may have been an 'on the run  fix' as it was a
>bundle of zspun threads being used as a bunch together  (not plied or
>overcast).
>
>One brooch (the left) also had  another length of thread - this time a linen
>Z2S plied thread about 1mm  thick - presumed to be the hanging thread for 
>the
>knife found  on the left upper arm.
>
>Interestingly, the only other textile  remains under both brooches and under
>the straps was the coarser tabby  vegetable fibre (hemp or linen) also found
>under the knife.  There  was no other textile across the lower edges of the
>brooches similar to  that found in Birka, and as you'd expect if the 
>brooches
>sat  ontop of your apron, completely hiding the lower loops.
>
>Walton  Roger considers that the second set of loops may have been for  a
>Flemming Bau type hanging apron on top of  a wrap  aprondress.  She gives no
>explanation for why the aprondress  textile was not caught in the brooches.
>
>yipee, another english  language article...and some great references too -
>Does anyone have a  translation of the Petersen classification of  tortoise
>brooches?
>
>The way the top loops were made in  the same manner as the bottom loops goes
>against the Historiska  Museet's  reconstruction.
>http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/eng/drakter/vkvinna/vkvinfr.htm
>(the  single strap with the end looped on itself).
>
>It's also noted  that the woman was at least 40, had osteoarthritis in her
>neck and may  have come from Trondheim in Nothern Norway.  The long loop
>straps  from back to over the shoulder may be a more Western  Scandinavian
>thing???
>
>morag
>politarchopolis,  lochac