Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Canterbury (St Augustine's Abbey) 05, Kent 
Overview
Object type: Part of capital
Measurements: H. 30 cm (11.8 in); W. 35 cm (13.8 in); D. 20 cm (8 in)
Stone type: Greyish-yellow, finely granular limestone, with some 1-mm perforations; Ditrupa limestone, Calcaire Grossier Formation, Palaeogene, Tertiary; Paris Basin
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 38-40
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 132
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Present Location
Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Stores, Dover castle (reg. no. LM 102)
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded in Clapham 1927 (in museum of St Augustine's College); not mentioned in Hope 1917
Church Dedication
St Augustine's abbey
Present Condition
Extensively bruised, but apparently unweathered
Description
Roughly broken behind and below, so that about half of the capital is lost; the ends of the volutes are also broken away. Otherwise, similar to Canterbury, K. (St Augustine's abbey) no. 3, though rather taller and narrower.
Discussion
Probably part of the same architectural scheme as Canterbury (St Augustine's Abbey) nos. 3–4, and of the same date.
Date
Ninth century
References
Peers 1927a, 215; Cottrill 1931, 49, appendix
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