Fløjstrup – A Viking Age Grave with Early Silk

Charlotte Rimstad, Irene Skals, Ina Vanden Berghe

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Abstract

In 1898 a female grave was excavated in Fløjstrupnear Randers in Denmark, dated to the first half of the ninthcentury. The dead woman had been buried in a stone cistunderneath a burial mound. Her grave goods consisted of two ovalbrooches, a key reused as a brooch, a spindle whorl, a clay vesseland an iron knife as well as small fragments of at least six differenttextiles, among others silk fragments. As the find has never beenfully published, this article aims to do so, including new fibre anddye analyses of the textiles, and in this way shed light on the oldestfind of silk in a Danish context.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Common Thread : Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand
EditorsUlla Mannering, Marie-Louise Nosch, Anne Drewsen
Number of pages14
Place of PublicationTurnhout, Belgium
PublisherBrepols Publishers
Publication date2024
Pages79-93
ISBN (Print)978-2-503-61277-5
ISBN (Electronic)978-2-503-61278-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Series New Approaches in Archaeology Series
Volume3

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