No, I wish I did. I thought it was amazing to think that it survived all those years, but then when you think the bog man was so well mummified, then it's not hard to understand how this piece of cloth might have survived. It looked like a medium weave of something like wool. It seemed quite finely done. ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > Interesting. do you recall what kind of cloth it was? > On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 03:31 AM, Tirabasso wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "stephen davie" <stephen.davie@sympatico.ca> > > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 12:05 PM > > Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] Scottish 'tinklers' or gypsies? > > > > > > > > Just a brief note.... > > > > Parts snipped.... > > > > > >> I ran into a stone wall merely enquiring as to what my relatives in > >> Orkney would have worn on their bodies in the way of clothing say a > >> thousand years ago, considering the weather in the winter especially, > >> and the dampness. > > > > Steve, one item of clothing I did see in the museum there in Kirkwall > > was a > > cloth hood worn over the whole head witht the face cut out. Sort of a > > Balaclava looking item. It had been dug from the peat.. It was there > > for a > > short visit and was to return to another museum. > > > > Pat > > > > > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > > word > > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > > >