Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 34, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of impost or string-course(?)
Measurements: H. 13 > 3 cm (5.1 > 1.2 in); W. 13 > 5 cm (5.1 > 2 in); D. 6 > 1 cm (2.4 > 0.4 in)
Stone type: Pale greyish-yellow, 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. 559
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 290
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 242
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in rubble deriving from nave of Old Minster; Final Phase 58 (Provisional Phase 950), c. 1093-4
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
Only one bed face survives; the carved surface is battered, and there are traces of plaster and whitewash.
Description
The moulding consists of two rounded horizontal elements, separated by a deep V-cut, below a wider, shallower, and backward sloping element, and above a vertical face. The bed face is at a steep angle to the mouldings.
Discussion
This could be part of a string or impost.
Date
Seventh or tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 34
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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