Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (New Minster) 03, Hampshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 105.
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in rubble deriving from demolition of the south wall of New Minster; Final Phase 67 (Provisional Phase 737), c. 1110
Church Dedication
New Minster
Present Condition
One bed face survives; the carved surface is battered.
Description

The diameter at the surviving (upper) bed face is c. 20 cm (7.9 in). The upper moulding, 3 cm high, is damaged but was perhaps rounded; the lower, major, part is bulbous. The left side is flattened for the inner 2 cm, as if it had been built into a wall.

Discussion
Comparable capitals can be seen in, for example, the late tenth-century Benedictional of St Aethelwold (fol. 118v) or on a ninth-century ivory casket of the Metz School (Temple 1976, no. 23, ill. 91, fig. 17).
Date
Tenth century, perhaps early
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 142, no. 19
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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