While pushing off the humuslayer 20 metres (66 ft) north of the tumuli, the first late Saxon flat graves appeared in the ground.

Additionally some soil discolorations appeared at a brim of the sand mine some 80 metres (260 ft) east, indicating burial pits.

The brooch has a diameter of 30 millimetres (1.2 in) and is made of different colored vitreous enamel in cloisonné technique on a copper plate.

[3] The front face of the disc brooch depicts a stylized chest portrait on a now red background.

The body is decorated by two widely arced copper bars from the neck towards the shoulders, which end there in small loops.

Due to its halo-like ornament around the head, the figure on the Maschen disc brooch is interpreted as an unspecified saint, and may possibly depict Jesus Christ.

She may have promised herself a salvation effect from the depicted figure, as the brooch was found placed with its face side on her chest.