Among the most notable artifacts recovered from the woman’s grave were four silver clasps or buckles, which were inlaid with gold and studded with a mixture of semi-precious stones. They also found an elaborate headdress decorated with multiple gold discs. Two of the clasps had textiles still attached, which the archaeologists believed belonged to the clothing the woman had been dressed in when she was buried in one instance, and to a large cloth or coat she had been covered with before being interred in the other.
The Bohemian buckle was discovered during excavations by a team of archaeologists from the Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové. (Pavel Horník /
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