Closing wounds: stitches or staples

[Robert]

Staples are a great way of holding a wide, gaping wound together and then closing it with sutures. This allows for nice, tight stitches, as the main pressure is off the wound edges. This would make for a clean heal with less puckering of the wound leaving a great, raised scar. So I think it was not OR , but that both were used at the same time.

[Medicus matt]

I think it's worth emphasising that I'm happy to accept that thorns, pins, wire, staples and even brooches all make viable wound closures, that all may have been used and that we have textual and archaeological evidence to support the belief. What I'm now interested in is the specific point on any of these closure methods being made from silver, which is something that I've heard stated as fact by re-enactors, the media and others in recent years.
Perhaps I should have started a new thread....

[Hanna]

The thorns from Illerup ådal is primarie from the plant "Prunus spinosa" from the rose famely.