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Object type: Part of column
Measurements: H. 28.5 > 21 cm (11.2 > 8.3 in); W. 18 > 17 cm (7.1 > 6.7 in); D. 18 > 17 cm (7.1 > 6.7 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, 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: Fig. 40; Ills. 522-523
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 280-281
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Throughout the length of the column there is a hole which is now off-centre. At the upper, broken surface the hole is circular with a diameter of 2.7 cm. On face F (the bed face) it is square (Ill. 522), measuring 5 x 5 cm on the surface, narrowing to c. 3.2 x 3.2 cm. The hole is square for a length of c. 20 cm, and circular for the remaining (upper) part. Originally it had a steep outward splay, 7 cm wide, at the top, which would, if complete, have placed the circular hole at the centre of a column with a diameter about 21 cm.
Externally, on the narrow part of the column, there is a damaged, raised middle band, 9 cm wide, which may once have projected far enough for the middle portion to have had the same diameter as the top and bottom of the column (see Fig. 40). The secondary working consists of trimming back the middle moulding throughout, and trimming the upper splay almost entirely away. A small area of the splay survives opposite the point where the column has been trimmed flat by diagonal tooling.
