The Egtved girl was buried at 16 to 18 with a child's cremated bones, and scientists still disagree on whether she came from Germany or from Egtved

On 24 February 1921 an oak coffin was found in a Bronze Age mound near Egtved. The tree was felled in summer, and a yarrow flower on the coffin dates the burial to summer 1370 BC. Inside lay a girl of 16 to 18, about 1.60 metres tall. Her bones had dissolved but her hair, teeth, nails and clothes survived: a short woollen blouse, a corded skirt and a belt with a large bronze disc. A bark bucket held a fermented drink, and the cremated bones of a child of five or six were bundled beside her. In May 2015 Karin Frei of the National Museum of Denmark reported in Scientific Reports that strontium in her molar did not match Jutland. The team placed her birthplace in the Black Forest of southern Germany and found her wool was not Danish. Her hair and thumbnail suggested journeys back and forth in her last months; Frei said she arrived at Egtved about a month before she died. In 2019 two Danish geologists showed that farm lime had skewed the strontium map. Using unaffected samples, they found her values match the Egtved area. The question is open. She is in the National Museum in Copenhagen.