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The girl with the cap broach

The girl with the cap broach

Project: Amersfoort

Era: Modern Era
Period: 1635-1650
adult
Age: 24-27
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.
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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.
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location:

2002   Amersfoort, St. Rochuschaple

exhibitions:

Cold Cases Amersfoort
museum Flehite
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client:

department of Archaeology municipality Amersfoort
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maker body:

M. d'Hollosy

clothes:

Eva Ijsveld
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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.
lees verder
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.

location:

2002   Amersfoort, St. Rochuschaple

exhibitions:

Cold Cases Amersfoort
museum Flehite
link

client:

department of Archaeology municipality Amersfoort
link

maker body:

M. d'Hollosy

clothes:

Eva Ijsveld
link
Publications
printed matter
links
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