The skeleton of this young woman (24-27 year) was excavated in a pestilence graveyard, near the Rochus chapel in Amersfoort. There were remains of a cap broach on her skull, a metal support for a cap, coif or hood.
The metal ensured that some hair strands were very good preserved, so we now know the haircolour of this woman: blond. The fashion in cap broaches was quickly changing, one day it’s in, the next day it’s out. So this cap broach dated this skeleton around 1640.
As a child she had a poor health and she probably died of pestilence.
