61297 The 'Witham Shield' was found in the River Witham near Washingborough c.1827. It represents the earliest style of British La Tene art, and is dated by Piggott to 200 BC. An iron sword with the 'locket' of a bronze scabbard of the same period was found at the same time and place but not apparently in association. Now in the British Museum. Other finds of the Iron Age variously mentioned as being from the Witham at Washingborough or 'below Lincoln' and probably from the same general area include a bronze sword with 'antenna' hilt found in 1826 and now in Alnwick Castle Museum, part of the bronze mount of a shield (early La Tene - in British Museum), and two iron swords with bronze scabbards, now lost. {1}{2}{3}