[1] The first objects were found there by the plowman Peter Heckert on 18 October 1869 while digging holes to plant beets.

Objects from the site including gold rings and a bronze pot are held in the Rheinischen Landesmuseum in Bonn.

[2] After the objects had been found the exact location was forgotten and no effort was made to preserve the site.

[3] In 1997 Professor Michael Schönherr tried to organize an investigation of the arable area where the site was presumed to be located, based on fragmentary records.

He received no response from the state archaeologists apart from a request not to publish the location since that could attract looters.

[4] The Waldalgesheimer chariot burial is one of the most important finds from the early Celtic period.

[1] Two similar sheets of bronze, badly damaged, are decorated with repoussé busts ornamented with the new style.

[11] The flagon and the bronze bucket seem to have been more deeply buried than the gold torc and bracelets, which has been taken as possible evidence of two burials at different dates.

It continues to draw on classical Celtic plant motifs, but marks the highest artistic level of the early Le Tene period with its confident interpretation and execution.

For this reason, some archaeologists prefer the term "vegetal" to reflect the emphasis on design derived from plants, and particularly from tendrils.

[13] The decorative style is found on different types of objects in different regions: sword sheaths in Italy, fibulae in Switzerland and neck rings in France.

[15] The Agris Helmet is remarkable as an example of high-status Le Tene metalwork which may have been buried as a ritual offering to the underworld spirits.