Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 23, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of lathe-turned column or baluster
Measurements: H. 14 > 1 cm (5.5 > 0.4 in); W. 29 > 6 cm (11.4 > 2.3 in); D. 26 > 21 cm (10.2 > 8.2 in)
Stone type: Yellowish-grey, medium-grained, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 538
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 286-287
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 47
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in destruction rubble deriving from tenth-century east apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 60 (Provisional Phase 645), late eleventh-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One bed face survives; its surface is battered.
Description
Reconstructed diameter 38 cm (15 in). A round hole (diameter 5 cm (2 in)) has been drilled off-centre at a slight angle to the vertical axis. There are no mouldings on this piece but there are traces of lathe turning.
Discussion
This drum probably comes from the tenth-century east end, but cannot be dated within the Anglo-Saxon period.
Date
Late tenth century or earlier
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 143, no. 23
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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