The primary analysis of a part of the inventory from the unique barrow from Skardelies Wald burial ground in the article allows us to attribute the bulk of this material to the products of the Baltic masters who reproduced their vision of the German pictorial tradition of the Merovingian era. This fact, as well as the Prussian ceremony, according to which the soldiers were buried in this grave, make it possible to consider the fact of the residence of the Scandinavians buried here in the Prussian encirclement proven. This environment tried to supply these leaders with the last path in accordance with their funeral traditions, but with inventory made on Germanic semantic and visual motives. The dates of the individual components of this complex make it possible to attribute its construction to the end of 6th – half of 7th centuries.