Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Sompting 06, Sussex 
Overview
Object type: Part of string-course
Measurements: H. 12 cm (4.7 in); W. 35 cm (13.8 in); D. (visible) 5 cm (2 in)
Stone type: Pale grey to yellowish, fine-grained, soft limestone; Caen stone, Calcaire de Caen Formation, Bathonian, Middle Jurassic; Caen Normandy
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 166, 169
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 174-175
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Present Location
Incorporated into lower part of reredos immediately behind altar
Evidence for Discovery
See Sompting no. 4.
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description
From a border of square section along the upper edge, and at right angles to it, emerge thick plant stems terminating in groups of leaves. Each leaf is narrow, round ended, and backward curling. The leaves are of concave section, the concavities being carried down the stem to give a reeded effect. The outer pair of leaves curls back first, followed by subsequent pairs, although the median leaf is straight. The irregular trimming of the lower edge has damaged some of the tips of the leaves. These stems alternate with shorter, rounded-ended stems, similarly reeded but without leaves.
Discussion
See Sompting no. 4.
Date
Eleventh century
References
Clapham 1935a, 407 - 8, pl. VIIIB; Kendrick 1949, 103; Rice 1952, 144; Quirk 1961, 32; Fisher 1962, 381; Nairn and Pevsner 1965, 331; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, ii, 562; Fisher 1970, 181; Kirby 1978, 165; Gem 1983, 128; Tweddle 1986b, i, 72 - 3, 180 - 2, ii, 463, iii, fig. 27, pl. 87b
D.T.
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