Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 26, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 8.5 > 3 cm (3.3 > 1.2 in); W. 7.5 > 2.5 cm (3 > 1 in); D. 3 > 1.2 cm (1.2 > 0.5 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 547-548
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 287-288
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 283.1
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in rubble deriving from north wing added to nave of Old Minster during tenth century; Final Phase 69 (Provisional Phase 1000), mid to late twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One bed face survives; the decorated surface is battered and overlain with plaster.
Description
This sliver has a diagonal dressed face to the right. The surface has two flat-topped horizontal mouldings, 2.5 cm (1 in) and 1 cm (0.4 in) wide. An almost triangular element hangs from the lower moulding, with its left side almost parallel to the dressed face. The interior of the triangle is filled with plaster.
Discussion
Possibly part of an elaborate string
Date
Tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 26
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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