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Vix Grave
The Vix Grave is a burial mound at the foot of Mont Lassois, near Vix in northern Burgundy, where a person of high rank, usually identified as a woman, was buried about 470 BCE. Excavated undisturbed in 1953, it held a gold torc and imported vessels for wine from Italy and the Greek world. Chief among them is the Vix krater, a bronze vessel 1.64 metres high, the largest known metal vessel from western classical antiquity. The krater and a reconstruction of the grave are in the museum at Châtillon-sur-Seine.
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