Object: Sheet Ornament
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum,No. 1934.12.7,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
Patina: Golden Brown
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Other objects of hoard see Antiq. Jour. (supra)
Description: 9 fragments of bronze plate, pierced by crescentic openings and small circular holes. Ornamented by incised concentric circles and by incised lines along the (original) edges. The plate had evidently been broken deliberately. It is suggested that the plate formed part of the metal fittings of a sword scabbard, to which perhaps the Flat Loop (1934.12.9) also belonged.
Publications: Proceedings, Dorset Field Club, XXV, xxxiii,Antiquaries Journal, XV, 449 ff, fig.8.
Remarks: Part of "The Lulworth Hoard"