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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The incredible ‘Orkney Hood’ from Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 So well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than some 1,500 years ago! It’s thought the hood was made for a child. Found in 1867 in a peat bog in St Andrews Parish, Orkney. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a museum mannequin wearing a brown-coloured woven woollen hood with a long knotted fringe. The remarkablely well preserved hood was found in a peat bog on the island of Orkney in 1867. Organic clothing rarely survives, but the lack of oxygen in the peaty conditions of the bog served to practically halt its decay. The hood has been radio-carbon dated to between AD 250 and AD 615. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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