In 1872, Édouard Flouest, a correspondent of the Commission de Topographie des Gaules, and Abel Maître, head of the workshops at the musée gallo-romain, led excavations at Magny-Lambert, in the Côte-d'Or region, funded by the commission. The burial mound of “Monceau-Laurent” revealed the tomb of a warrior from the 7^th century BCE, along with impressive funerary artefacts: a drinking vessel, long iron sword and razor. These items, today conserved at the musée d'Archéologie nationale, were drawn by Flouest soon after their discovery. Flouest, in the notes accompanying his drawing, noted the technique used for making the cist and its state of preservation.