B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal
Karva- ja turkisjäänteitä Tampereen Vilusenharjun haudasta II (Hair and fur remains from grave II at Vilusenharju cemetery in Tampere)
Authors: Kirkinen Tuija, Moilanen Ulla
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Pirkanmaan Alta: Arkeologisia Tutkimuksia
Volume: 19
First page : 38
Last page: 44
Web address : https://issuu.com/vapriikki/docs/pma19netti
The cemetery of Vilusenharju (ca. 800–1200 AD) is one of the best-known Iron Age sites in the Pirkanmaa area. The cremation burials at the site date from the Viking period until the 11th and 12th centuries, when cremations co-existed with inhumations. This article studies the hair and fur fragments found from the inhumation grave II at Vilusenharju. The grave has possibly belonged to a female, who was buried in a tree-trunk coffin padded with a fur of wild forest reindeer. The preserved human hair from the grave possibly contains also hair fragments of another species. The hair fragments have not been preserved well enough for more detailed determination.