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  • Out of the Norwegian glaciers: Lendbreen—a tunic from the early first millennium AD

  • Marianne Vedeler, Lise Bender Jørgensen
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 87 / Issue 337 / September 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 788-801
    Print publication:
    September 2013
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  • As the temperature rises each year, the assemblages of prehistoric hunters emerge from the ice. Archaeologists in Norway are now conducting regular surveys in the mountains to record the new finds. A recent example presented here consists of a whole tunic, made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill. The owner, who lived in the late Iron Age (third–fourth centuries AD), was wearing well-worn outdoor clothing, originally of high quality.