The suspensory ligament (of Lockwood) forms a hammock stretching below the eyeball between the medial and lateral check ligaments and enclosing the inferior rectus and inferior oblique muscles of the eye.

The ligament supports the eye, and prevents downward displacement of it.

It can be considered a part of the bulbar sheath.

It is named for Charles Barrett Lockwood

Charles Barrett Lockwood

Charles Barrett Lockwood was a British surgeon and anatomist who practiced surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Lockwood was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons....

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