Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 29, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of string-course or impost
Measurements: H. 7.8 > 6.5 cm (3.1 > 2.6 in); W. 9 > 7 cm (3.5 > 2.8 in); D. 2.9 > 1 cm (1.1 > 0.4 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 539
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 288-289
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 294
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in rubble deriving from Old Minster nave; Final Phase 60-67 (Provisional Phase 992), late eleventh- to early twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One bed face survives; the carved surface is somewhat battered.
Description
The upper part has a well defined band, 4.5 cm high projecting 1 cm beyond the lower element which slopes inwards. The top is flat with a maximum width of 1.5 cm. There are chisel marks on the bed face.
Discussion
This is very well cut, and could have come from a moulding like Winchester (Old Minster) no. 27, but the fragment is too small to be sure.
Date
Tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 29
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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