It is assumed to be the grave of a chieftain and contained the remains of a middle-aged man buried in the first century AD.

[2] The most famous goods are a Roman table service, made in Italy around the beginning of the Common Era.

The tableware has been interpreted as part of an attempt by a local elite to manifest high status by imitating Roman drinking customs.

The archeologist Knud Friis Johansen has written that their presence at the site might have resulted from a conscious Roman attempt to influence Germanic elites.

The cups could have been a direct or indirect gift from Gaius Silius to the man buried in the grave, although this cannot be proved.