Girl from Röst

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Girl from Röst

The girl from roasting was an Iron Age bog body , the 1926 roaster Moor at Tensbüttel-roasting in Schleswig-Holstein was found. The bog body was kept in the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities and was destroyed in the fire in the museum after Allied bombing raids on Kiel on May 22, 1944; only the woolen blanket is preserved from the find.

Find

The site is on a parcel of the Röster Moor belonging to the Lichtenhof settlement . This is in the area of ​​the municipality of Tensbüttel-Röst in the district of Dithmarschen . There, in the spring of 1926 , the peat worker Johannes Kroll stumbled upon the flattened body of the child's corpse at the bottom of a 3.4 meter long and 80 cm deep pit. The mayor B. Rothmann reported the find to the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities in Kiel, which carried out the recovery of the find. Samples for pollen analysis were taken from the site. The corpse was preserved in an alcohol bath and exhibited in Kiel Castle.
Location: 54 ° 6 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 46 ″  E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 46 ″  E

Findings

The child was about two to two and a half years old and presumably female sex . At the place of discovery, traces of burial with a significantly different composition of the peat layer above the body were found. The layer of peat overlying the girl consisted of several piled heaths and younger sphagnum peat . This indicated that it had been placed in a dug pit and then covered. It was lying almost on its back. The body was compressed to only a few centimeters due to the bones decalcified by the acid moor environment and the mass of earth weighing on it. Both arms were in a raised position and the right hand was clenched into a fist. His legs were slightly apart and knees slightly bent. The skin of the girl was stained deep brown by the moor, extremely well preserved and had only a few injuries. The existing injuries, as well as the head that had been severed from the trunk by a groundbreaking, could be traced back to the finder's peat work. Hair about 2 to 3 centimeters long was preserved on the head. From the skeleton only some could vertebrae are observed.

The girl's torso was covered with a heavily worn cloth made of sheep's wool , which is now in the Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig under the inventory number KS 15609 and probably served as a shroud . The cloth has a length of 62 cm, a width of 45 cm and is now brown in color. The yarn of the cloth, which is woven in herringbone twill, is spun from fine lambswool in a Z-twist . The fabric density is about 6 to 7 warp threads and about 7 to 8 weft threads per centimeter, the weft threads being particularly strongly beaten. All fabric edges have serged cut edges and the lack of selvedges indicates that it was cut from a larger piece of fabric. The heavily worn and perforated cloth was stuffed in several places with roughly sewn patches.

Dating

The woolen cloth was typologically dated to the pre-Roman Iron Age by the textile archaeologist Karl Schlabow . This dating could be confirmed in the 1990s by a 14 C-AMS investigation carried out on three samples from the woolen cloth and narrowed down to the period between 200 and 95 BC.

interpretation

The girl was buried on her back in a pit dug out of the moor and covered with a tattered woolen cloth. These circumstances can indicate a poor burial. It is also conceivable that the girl was buried away from a regular burial site in order to prevent her from eating or revenging .

literature

  • Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor. The prehistoric and protohistoric bog bodies from northwestern Europe . Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , pp. 81–82, 89 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).
  • Otto Aichel : About bog bodies, together with a new case: (2 1/2 year old girl from Röst in Dithmarschen) . In: Negotiations of the Society for Physical Anthropology . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1927, p. 57-73 ( djvu [accessed October 22, 2013]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katharina von Haugwitz: The bog bodies of Schleswig-Holstein. Documentation and interpretation . University of Hamburg, 1993, p. 20–21 (master's thesis).
  2. ↑ Otto Aichel : About bog bodies, together with a report of a new case: (2 1/2 year old girl from Röst in Dithmarschen) . In: Negotiations of the Society for Physical Anthropology . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1927, p. 64-65 . Determined according to Top50 SH, coordinate imprecise → Lichtenhof
  3. ↑ a b Karl Schlabow : Textile finds from the Iron Age in Northern Germany . In: Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history . tape 15 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1976, ISBN 3-529-01515-6 , pp. 22, 83, fig. 209 .
  4. ↑ Johannes van der Plicht, Wijnand van der Sanden , AT Aerts, HJ Streurman: Dating bog bodies by means of 14 C-AMS . In: Journal of Archaeological Science . tape 31 , no. 4 , 2004, ISSN  0305-4403 , p. 471–491 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jas.2003.09.012 (English, ub.rug.nl [PDF; 388 kB ; accessed on June 2, 2010]).
  5. ^ Katharina von Haugwitz: The bog bodies of Schleswig-Holstein. Documentation and interpretation . University of Hamburg, 1993, p. 113–114 (master's thesis).
personal data
SURNAME Girl from Röst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bog corpse
DATE OF BIRTH between 3rd century BC BC and 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 200 BC BC and 95 BC Chr.
Place of death at Tensbüttel-Röst