Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (New Minster) 07, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 13 > 9 cm (5.1 > 3.4 in); W. 10.3 > 6 cm (4 > 2.4 in); D. 5 > 3 cm (2 > 1.2 in)
Stone type: Very pale brown (10YR 8/3), medium- to coarse-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 659-60
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 327
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 574
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1970 in pit (F. 473) associated with Anglo-Saxon monastic buildings belonging to New Minster; Final Phase 236 (Provisional Phase 2626), late eleventh century
Church Dedication
New Minster
Present Condition
No dressed faces survive; the carved surface is deeply burnt and eroded.
Description
The vertical mouldings to the left may be from drapery, an interpretation perhaps supported by the shallow diagonal mouldings to the right which may be from surface folds.
Discussion
The mouldings suggests drapery folds like Wimchester (Old Minster) no. 85 (Ill. 641), but of a cruder quality. The piece is one of very few Anglo-Saxon carved stones from the domestic buildings of New Minster, which were extensively excavated.
Date
Late tenth century?
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 152, no. 87
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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