60 DORSET-FOUNfa CELTIC AND ROMAN BRONZE OBJECT'S. 



No. of 

 Case. 



No. of 

 Object. 



Locality, &c. 



How procured. 



xiii.A. 



Br. 40. 



Br. 41. 



Br. 4'2. 



Near Dorchester. 



Stud or boss, probably belonging to a 

 Roman shield. These studs were used for 

 riveting together the hide and wicker or 

 timber work forming the shield. 2^in. in 

 diameter. 



Belbury. Higher Lytchett. 



Several fragments of thin bronze, which 

 look as if they may be part of the covering 

 and of the rim of a wooden shield. See 

 descriptive label in Case xiv. 



Belbury (belonging to the same find as 

 Br. 4 i/ 



Two pairs of curious objects, the use of 

 which is a puzzle. But Mr. Cunnington's 

 opinion that they belonged to two helmets 

 is a likely one. These things are thin and 

 hollow. One sort is a very grotesque repre- 

 sentation of a bull, with the legs rudely 

 conventionalized, and a strange tail, curled 

 over the back, and ending in a kind of 

 flower. The other sort is shaped like a 

 ridge tile. The hollow cylinder, forming 

 the crest, has a hole at each end. Mr. C. 

 thinks that the crest of the helmet had a 

 bull affixed at its front or upper end, and 

 one of the ridge-tile shaped things at the 

 lower end ; and that the holes in the latter 

 were to receive a wire sustaining a hanging 

 plume. It is probable that these holes also 

 held wires whereby the bronze was fastened 

 to the crest. For there arc no rivet-holes 

 in the side flanges of the ridge-tile shaped 



Given by 



E. Cuimingtoii, 



Esq. 



With the 

 Cunnington 

 Collection. 



Do. 



