Object: SLIDE-FASTENER
Classification: Bugle
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum, 1934.12.16,Loan from the late Herbert Weld, F.S.A.,Formerly at Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Site: England,Dorset,Winfrith Newburgh,In coombe-bottom below Sleight Buildings (or Randall's Farm), 1 3/4 m. S. of Winfrith,Exact site lost.,1903
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Winfrith Newburgh
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1903
Length (mm): 70
Thickness (mm): 1
Patina: Silvery-grey patina, suggestion high proportion of tin.
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Other objects in hoard. See Antiq. Journal.
Description: Originally a well-made casting; one end and back broken off and missing. Thickness 1mm, except at end, rim of which is thickened to 3mm.
Publications: Proceedings Dorset Field Club, XXV, xxxiii,Antiquaries Journal, XV, 449 ff., Pl. LXIX, fig. 12
Remarks: Only "bugle-shaped" object reported from Dorset (1936). Part of the "Lulworth Hoard".