PHEHISTORIC RAZOR FOUND
A prehistoric razor lias been found in a graveyard at Mulhausen in Thuringia. In this graveyard, which is believed to date back to the sixth century before Christ, the time of the Thuringian kingdom, many other articles of interest have been unearthed. The excavators have found splinters of glass from some very fine vessel, also a kind of pincers, evidently used for shaving. An interesting discovery in a woman’s grave was the clasp of a dress consisting of four bronze birds’ heads, which, together, make the pattern of, the swastika, enclosed within the mystic sign of the sunwheel.
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Evening Star, Issue 22774, 8 October 1937, Page 3
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101PHEHISTORIC RAZOR FOUND Evening Star, Issue 22774, 8 October 1937, Page 3
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