Object: Flesh-Hook
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum, 1934.12-1.A-C,Loan from the late Herbert Welsh, F.S.A., Formerly at Lulworth Castle, Dorset
Site: England,Dorset,Winfrith Newburgh,In Coome Bolton below Sleight Buildings (or Randall's Farm) 1 3/4 mile S. of Winfrith, exact site lost.,1903
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Winfrith Newburgh
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SY 80 82
Year of discovery: 1903
Length (mm): 193
Patina: Dull green, metal rubbed bright in places.
Surface: Smooth, generally, some rough patches, dented in places.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Length: Head: 193mm; Handle: 105mm; Rings: c. 37 outer and 24 inner diameter
Associations: Other objects in hoard, see Antiquaries Journal, supra.
Description: The head has a socket with a hollowed T-shaped cross-pieces, from which spring two curved prongs (one missing but the stump remains). It is broken in 3 pieces. The handle is socketed, consisting of a tube with a hollow be-conical pommel, the apex of which is pierced by a hole. This hole, which appears to be the result of a fracture, may indicate the position of a loop to hold a ring for suspension. The middle portion of the handle is missing, but it is suggested that the 4 hollow bronze rings were once suspended from it, as in the well known example from Dunaverney Bog.
Publications: Proceedings, Dorset Field Club, XXV, xxxiii,Antiquaries Journal, XV, 449 H, Fig. 1
Remarks: Part of "The Lulworth Hoard.",1b. Hoard,PI (O); CI; SI; AFI; DF (C),Dorset County Museum, 13.1.1936, C.D. Dunn