Reconstruction of the grave amongst tree coffin [Credit: Amt für Städtebau, City of Zurich]
The tree coffin burial of a Celtic woman, which was discovered inward March 2017 during structure run on the Kern schoolhouse building, was examined past times the Archaeology City of Zurich inward an interdisciplinary evaluation. The bones together with the odd burial objects were carefully documented, salvaged, preserved together with evaluated. Thus the grave tin last assigned to the Late Iron Age some 200 BC. Of the artefacts that convey been found, a string of drinking glass beads inward detail is unique inward its form: it is fastened betwixt ii fibulae (clasps) together with fitted amongst precious drinking glass together with amber beads.
The forthwith completed interdisciplinary evaluation of the archeology region of the urban inwardness of Zurich paints a fairly accurate film of the deceased. The exam of the skeleton together with peculiarly the teeth shows, amid other things, that she died at the historic menstruum of nearly 40, did piffling physical run during her lifetime together with likely ate a relatively large sum of starchy or sweetened food.
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