Sunday 6 June 2021

The Hammerum girl hair

I was working through some of the stuff in my "Hair inspo" folder since I was planning to go through some of the pictures I've saved. Quite a few of them are historical updos, and one of them was a picture of the Hammerun girls hair.
The Hammerun girl was a late Roman iron age bog body found in Denmark in 1993.
The drawing I saved of her hair, looked pretty cool and definitely doable. 
But as I was googling for more information, I just found myself getting more and more confused. 

This was the drawing I originally saved:


Headband braid placed very far forward, maybe Dutch? And a braided, low bun. 
I feel this has very much a classic Greek statue-look to it.

But it also reminded me of something, namely the one in the middle of the picture here:


However, after checking the text in another picture, this is not the same updo. This one is the woman from Lønne hede (Can't find a non-Danish source, sorry) another bog body. But, the two bog bodies are from around the same time period and something similar has been depicted on other finds, so I guess this style was in fashion around there. The other bog body is more famous for her vibrantly blue dress btw.

The Hammerun girls hair looked like this in the grave:

Text says, left to right:
Braid under smooth forehead hair
Small braids by the ear
Neck-knot

And it has been reconstructed as this:


Which doesn't exactly match up to the above description. 

But it has also been reconstructed as this:


...Which also doesn't entirely match up to the description?

So I guess the best reconstruction is something along a headband-braid where you feed loose hair in through the headband, and then put it up in some sort of bun?
Maybe this could be turned into something more wearable and less time consuming to style. Hmm...

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