Discovery of Egtved Girl

The Egtved Girl is a well-preserved Bronze Age burial discovered in a burial mound near the village of Egtved, in Jutland, Denmark. The mound contained an oak coffin, and inside lay the remains of a young woman, probably aged about sixteen to eighteen, dressed in a short wool tunic and a corded skirt with a bronze belt plate. Tree-ring dating of the coffin has placed the burial around the fourteenth century BCE. Her clothing, hair and some belongings survived thanks to the unusual conditions in the coffin. Isotope studies of her teeth and hair suggest that she travelled long distances in her life, possibly from outside Denmark. She is now one of the best-known finds of the Nordic Bronze Age.

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