DiscoveryWindeby1

Windeby 1 Discovery

Windeby is a place near Schleswig. Two bodies were found in 1952 when the owners of the estate decided to cut the peat and sell it for fuel. Windeby 1 (being the first discovered) was originally thought to be a 14 year old girl. The workers had to stop cutting the peat because they had already damaged the body greatly. One of the legs, a foot and a hand were severed from the body.

P.V. Glob (danish archeologist) descibed the body's position in the peat:

//** 'She lay on her back, her head twisted to one side, her left arm outstretched.... The right arm was bent in against the chest, as if defensively, while the legs were lightly drawn up, the left over the right. The head, with its delicate face, and the hands, were preserved best: the chest had completely disintegrated and the ribs were visible.... The hair, reddish from the effects of the bog acids but originally light blond, was of exceptional fineness but had been shaved off with a razor on the left side of the head.' **//

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