[1] The six grave objects, which date to between the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD, were found in a stone coffin at Uerdingen part of the city of Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The hoard later passed into the possession of the physician and collector Dr George Witt, who presented it to the British Museum in 1868[2] along with other parts of his collection.

The type of objects found in the grave suggest that the deceased was probably male and from the upper echelons of Roman society.

The most important part of the hoard is a well-preserved athlete's bronze toilet set for scraping and cleaning the skin, which consists of an aryballos and two strigils linked together by chains and a hoop for hanging on the wall.

[2] There were also a glass handled patera and oinochoe decorated with polychrome serpentine designs, which would have been used for hand-washing between meals.