Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Canterbury (St Augustine's Abbey) 04, Kent 
Overview
Object type: Part of capital
Measurements: H. 27 cm (10.6 in); W. 28 cm (11 in); D. 27 cm (10.6 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, finely granular limestone, with numerous Serpulid worm tubes; Ditrupa limestone, Calcaire Grossier Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Paris Basin
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 33-37
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 131-132
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Present Location
Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Stores, Dover castle (reg. no. 78203093)
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 3.
Church Dedication
St Augustine's abbey
Present Condition
Broken and worn
Description
Corner fragment of a capital similar to Canterbury, K. (St Augustine's abbey) no. 3, except that the surviving angle leaf is broader and decorated with pairs of incised lines rising obliquely, one on each side of its vertical axis.
Discussion
Although only fragmentary, the close comparison in form between this example and Canterbury, K. (St Augustine's abbey) no. 3 suggests that it too derived from a free-standing column. Like no. 3, it seems that this fragment came from a location on the site other than the Romanesque screen base, which yielded much of the rest of the pre-Conquest sculpture from the site.
Date
Ninth century
References
Peers 1927a, 215, pl. XXVIII; Clapham 1930, 126; Cottrill 1931, 49, appendix; Rice 1952, 145; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, i, 48 - 9; Tweddle 1983b, 35 - 6; Tweddle 1986b, i, 58 - 9, 157 - 9, ii, 363 - 4, iii, pl. 29b
D.T.
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