Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 31, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of moulding
Measurements: H. 7 > 2.5 cm (2.8 > 1 in); W. 7 > 2 cm (2.8 > 0.8 in); D. 3.3 > 1.5 cm (1.3 > 0.6 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 555
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 289
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 3037
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1963 in burial earth earlier than construction of New Minster; Final Phase 27-32 (Provisional Phase 541), late eighth- to late ninth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No bed faces survive; the carved surface is well preserved.
Description
One moulded surface only on this chip. The main element is a roll moulding, 3.5 cm wide, with a slight sag. The surface rises perhaps vertically above it and slopes roundly inwards below.
Discussion
This could be part of a moulding like Winchester (Old Minster) no. 32. The early date of its context is interesting; if the context is correct, the present piece must derive at the latest from a construction spread associated with re-shaping stones for New Minster. It was, however, found not far from the north-east corner of the seventh-century north porticus of Old Minster, where spreads associated with the eighth-century reconstruction of the seventh-century east end could have existed. The carving may have been redeposited from one of these.
Date
Seventh to ninth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 31
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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