Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 28, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of string-course
Measurements: H. 12 > 5.5 cm (4.8 > 2.2 in); W. 20 > 8 cm (7.9 > 3.1 in); D. 8 > 1 cm (3.1 > 0.4 in)
Stone type: Yellowish-grey, medium- to coarse-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 540
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 288
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 62
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in rubble deriving from tenth-century east apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 59 (Provisional Phase 644), c. 1093-4
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No bed faces survive; the carved surface is battered and eroded.
Description
A good curve carries the projection 2.4 cm out; the lower step is then vertical, and the next element slopes outwards. The overall projection is 5.2 cm.
Discussion
This is very like (but not identical to) Winchester (Old Minster ) no. 27, found near-by. They have the same overall projection and could have been part of the same string. For discussion and references, see no. 27.
Date
Tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 28
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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