VIKING BOBBED HAIR
Bobbed hair was the fashion 1000 years ago, and the Vikings had already invented a "zipper" (says a London writer). These interesting facts have been established through the discovery near Tilsit, Bast Prussia, of a great Viking burial-place, dating from the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. Thus far eighty graves have been opened, but these are but a small part of. tho total. The discoveries are unusually rich. Each man's grave contains three or four iron swords, as many as a dozen lance-heads, bronze belt buckles, stirrups, and^snaffilcs. The women's graves contain bronze bracelets, rings, necklaces, cleverly worked brooches, and head-bands! It was in ono of these graves that tho young woman with bobbed hair was found, as also "zippers," which were used in place of buttons or pins to secure garments.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 13
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135VIKING BOBBED HAIR Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 13
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