Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie - Polska Starożytna, Ossolineum, Public Domain
Posted on 03/08/2026 8:15:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...a coffin crashed down from a cliff near the Baltic Sea near the village of Bagicz, Poland, in 1899... Made from the hollowed trunk of an oak tree and exceptionally preserved, it protected the bones of a young woman from the ancient Wielbark culture who was thought at the time to have likely been a member of the social elite. She was buried with a bronze fibula, a necklace of glass and amber beads, a brooch, and bronze bar bracelets; was laying on a cowhide; and had a wooden stool at her feet.
...almost forgotten until the 1980s, when archaeologists rediscovered the partial skeleton with her coffin and grave goods. Even more recent investigations found that... it was unlikely the deceased was a princess or aristocrat... from the Roman Iron Age in Poland. It only appeared that she been buried alone because her coffin had been exposed by coastal erosion...
...By sampling a section that included sapwood (the younger layers of a tree's vascular tissues) and measuring the width of the growth rings, in addition to measuring the total annual growth rings, Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her team were able to date the wood...
the radiocarbon dating of the tooth present in the remains suggested that the young woman had died a century before her coffin was made... One theory is based on the fact that the nitrogen, oxygen and strontium content of her teeth and enamel suggested a diet high in animal protein. If at least some of that protein came from fish, the marine carbon -- which contains lower levels of the carbon-14 isotope -- could have artificially altered her perceived age...
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An alien ship dropped it.
Time storm. Fell off a wagon into a vortex. The cart landed in a field in NewMexico in 1923. The horse’s ass landed in the White House in January of 2021.
I keep dropping EVERYTHING!
Frustrating.
My mother-in-law. Tired of dragging that around.
“An alien ship dropped it.”
Jerked by headline
Wait! What!!??
“I’m not dead yet. I feel happy.”
“ a coffin crashed down from a cliff”
Headline says it fell from the sky.
Not nearly as strange as, “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner.
Wiel bark for notoriety!
(She’s a hog for fame).
“...and had a wooden stool at her feet.”
Just more proof that a woman’s work is NEVER done - even in the Afterlife! ;)
But
Why exactly the radiocarbon dating of the tooth present in the remains suggested that the young woman had died a century before her coffin was made, however, still eluded the archaeologists. One theory is..
Another theory is..
I think "solved" may be premature.
And she thought she was getting out of work. Ha! 😁
Since she lived near the Baltic Sea, fish could easily have been part of her diet. With a different rate of C14 changes in her teeth, it could account for the question of a coffin made a century after her death. Await more study.
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