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A Great Dane with the brindle color pattern. Brindle is a coat coloring pattern in animals, particularly dogs, cattle, guinea pigs, cats, and, rarely, horses. It is sometimes described as "tiger-striped", although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a tiger's coat. Brindle typically appears as black stripes on a red base.
We can reasonably speculate that this fur was oily and designed to keep the blade absolutely free from rust. [citation needed] The further speculation is that a pristine appearance of the blade would only have been so highly valued for pattern-welded blades. [citation needed] Classic sites includes Illerup Ådal and Kragehul.
The Bocksten Man (Swedish: Bockstensmannen) is the remains of a medieval man's body found in a bog in Varberg Municipality, Sweden.It is one of the best-preserved finds in Europe from that era and is exhibited at the Halland Museum of Cultural History (formerly known as Varberg County Museum).
The Gunnister Man is the remains of a late 17th- or early 18th-century man found by two Shetlanders in a peat bog not far from the junction of the A970 road in Gunnister, Shetland, Scotland. [1] The bog body was found on 12 May 1951 as the men were digging peat for fuel. [2] A stone placed by the Northmavine History Group now marks the find ...
This is a list of bog bodies grouped by location of discovery. Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
One of the best known early occurrence of houndstooth is the Gerum Cloak, [2] a garment uncovered in a Swedish peat bog, dated to between 360 and 100 BC. [3] Contemporary houndstooth checks may have originated as a pattern in woven tweed cloth from the Scottish Lowlands, [4] but are now used in many other woven fabric aside from wool
The man was buried at a bog (likely once a lake) at the foot of an ancient hill that was used for kingship ceremonies. A 2014 documentary suggested that he was a king or prince who was sacrificed by druids due to poor weather or harvests. These ancient tribes may have believed that this was caused by the failure of the king and he was ...
Gallagh Man is the name given to a preserved Iron Age bog body found in County Galway, Ireland, in 1821. The remains date to c. 470–120 BC , and are of a six-foot (1.8 m) tall, healthy male with dark and reddish hair, who is estimated to have been about 25 years old at the time of death.