Egtvedpigen - The Egtved Girl's grave, One of Europe’s finest Bronze Age finds, Denmark

"One of Europe’s finest Bronze Age finds was made in Egtved outside Vejle. Here, a young Bronze Age woman was found laid to rest in a mound.
The Egtved Girl was found on Thursday, 24 February 1921. Farmer, Peter Platz, was removing the last remains of a burial mound in his field when he encountered a heavy hollowed out oak casket...
She was lying on her back and her skin was well preserved, but no bones were left. She wore a brown wool top and a bronze ring on each wrist. Below the top you could see the iconic bronze belt plate. A skirt of twisted brown wool cords was wrapped twice around her waist. By her left leg lay a cloth bundle with the burnt bones of a 5 or 6-year-old child. At her feet stood a bucket of birch bark with the remains of a kind of honeysweetened beer. A yarrow blossom in the coffin revealed that the funeral had taken place in the summer. The girl was dead at the age of approx. 16-18 years...
The original Egtved find is on display at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen."
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