Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 25, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 14.2 > 12.6 cm (5.6 > 5 in); W. 7.8 > 5 cm (3.1 > 2 in); D. 6 > 4 cm (2.4 > 1.6 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 544-546
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 287
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 444
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1966 in rubble deriving from north wing added to nave of Old Minster during tenth century; Final Phase 68-70 (Provisional Phase 1099), twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No bed faces survive; the carved surface is battered.
Description
The pattern, which is incomplete, consists of three horizontal steps, projecting up to 3.5 cm from the background.
Discussion
This fragment could be part of an elaborate string, but is more likely to come from a complex scene.
Date
Tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 25
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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