Saturday, August 31, 2013

An Iron Age Sweater from Norway

As the glaciers retreat in Norway's mountains, all sorts of things are emerging from melted ice. Like this sweater, found on the Lendbreen glacier 6,500 feet (2000 m) above sea level.

The sweater was woven of wool in a diamond twill pattern between 230 and 390 CE. It would have fit a slender man around 5 feet 9 inches tall (1.75 m).

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