Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 14, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned column or baluster
Measurements: H. 9 > 4 cm (3.5 > 1.6 in); W. 8.5 > 4 cm (3.3 > 1.6 in); D. 3.8 > 1 cm (1.5 > 0.4 in)
Stone type: Greyish-yellow, medium-grained, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Fig. 40; Ill. 529
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 283
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 27
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in Norman destruction spread above tenth-century east apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 60 (Provisional Phase 645), late eleventh-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No bed face survives; the carved surface is well preserved.
Description
Reconstructed column diameter 39.2 cm (15.4 in). The moulding is composed of a hollow central band, 3 cm wide, with a step, 1.2 cm deep, to the next element above and a step, 1 cm deep, to the element below, which itself projects slightly.
Discussion
The drum probably came from the tenth-century east apse of Old Minster.
Date
Late tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 141, no. 11
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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