Tombs of the sacrificers? A few tombs share the characteristic
of containing a few very specific objects : full warrior
equipment including a sword in its sheath, spear, shield and
also a knife or cleaver (butcher's blade) and an axe with an eye
handle, together with one or more small buckets, a bronze pan, a
toolbox, and fragments of amphorae. One or other of these
objects may be missing, depending on the chronology, but the
assembly is still remarkable . The trilogy of weapon(s)-small
bucket(s)-axe/cleaver is always found and the general
destruction of the weapons is reminiscent of the Gauls' sacred
sites. One of the axes fits perfectly into the wound in the
skull of the murdered man discovered at the settlement and this
similarity, together with the specific sets of metal objects,
could indicate the tombs of sacrificers . The replacement of the
axe with the butcher's cleaver, at a time when hundreds of ewes
were ritually slaughtered at the settlement, is another argument
for viewing these remains as those