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A Late Bronze Age Hoard from Lulworth, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Extract

From the southern end of the main mass of the Dorset chalk hills an extension runs eastward. This, tapering as it proceeds, forms the narrow ridge of the Purbeck Hills, and, after a break caused by the waters of Poole Bay, is continued by the downs of the Isle of Wight. To the north it is bounded by the valley of the River Frome and Poole Harbour. To the south the sea is nowhere more than a few miles away, and in places it has eaten deeply into the chalk ridge itself.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1935

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References

page 449 note 1 Called Randalls Farm on the 6-in. Ord. map (Dorset Sheet LIV, NE.), and by the older name of Sleight Buildings on the 1-in. Ord. map (Popular Edition, Sheet 141).

page 449 note 2 Dorset Field Club Proceedings, xxv, xxxiii.

page 450 note 1 When first found it was not realized that all the pieces of the flesh-hook were part of the same object. It was tentatively suggested that two were ‘pieces of … a fitting of some sort of a car’, while the handle was described as the hilt of a sword.