The artifact presented in the collection is made from an iron sheet 1.5–2 millimeters thick. It features a convex-conical dome with a low solid spike (the spike is broken off) and broad fields with six holes through which the umbo was attached to the shield by six symmetrically arranged convex rivets with large heads, each with a diameter of five centimeters. The umbo was found together with a spearhead in the village of Troitskoye in the Sovetsky district of the Kursk region in 2019. Both finds come from a destroyed warrior burial that was performed according to the cremation rite and belong to the Grossromstedt chronological horizon, marking the transition from the La Tène period to Roman times.

This artifact belongs to the subculture of those Germanic warbands that participated in the campaigns of Ariovistus, fought against Roman generals such as Drusus, Ahenobarbus, Tiberius, and Germanicus, and were predominantly from the northeastern regions of Germany. The closest parallel to this artifact is a completely identical umbo from a warrior burial discovered at the end of 2009 on the right bank of the Seym River, between the villages of Mutin and Kamen in the Krolevetsky district of the Sumy region of Ukraine.

The burial was also performed according to the rite of cremation and was accompanied by expensive grave goods. Along with the umbo, the following items were found: a black-burnished ceramic vessel with a wide mouth, a situla (a bronze bucket) used as an urn for calcined bones, a bent sword with fragments of its scabbard, a spearhead and its socket, a knife, spurs, paired late La Tène pin-fibulae, and other items.