The Vix grave held the largest metal vessel of the ancient world, buried with a woman, and some scholars questioned whether the body was a woman's

In January 1953 Maurice Moisson and René Joffroy uncovered a burial chamber at the foot of Mont Lassois, a fortified hilltop near Vix. It had not been robbed. A woman of about 35 lay on the box of a four-wheeled wagon, its wheels set along the wall. She wore a gold neck ring of 480 grams with lion paws and winged horses, amber and stone necklaces, and bronze ankle rings. Beside her stood a bronze krater 1.64 metres tall, weighing 208.6 kilograms and holding about 1,100 litres, made in a Greek colony in southern Italy about 530 BC. It is the largest known ancient metal vessel. Two Athenian cups and a silver bowl completed her drinking set. Joffroy identified the body as female from the lack of weapons. Some scholars later questioned that; Bettina Arnold raised doubts in 1991, and a 2002 analysis by Christopher Knüsel found her likely female with some androgynous features^†. The museum states that a 1980 study confirmed a woman. INRAP reopened the site on 20 August 2019 and found nearly 2,000 items missed in 1953. The treasure is in the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais in Châtillon-sur-Seine.