Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Sompting 08, Sussex 
Overview
Object type: Part of string-course
Measurements: H. 12 cm (4.7 in); W. 40.5 cm (16 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. 164, 169
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 175
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Present Location
Incorporated into base of reredos immediately behind altar
Evidence for Discovery
See Sompting no. 4.
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description
See Sompting no. 6.
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, 464, iii, fig. 27, pl. 87b
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