Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 35, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment of impost or string-course(?)
Measurements: H. 20 > 4 cm (7.9 > 1.6 in); W. 20 > 4 cm (7.9 > 1.6 in); D. 4 > 1 cm (1.6 > 0.4 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 558
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 290-291
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 427
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1966 in fill of Medieval Grave 269, dug into west end of Old Minster; Final Phase 73 (Provisional Phase 1510), early to mid thirteenth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No bed faces survive; the carved surface is crisp.
Description
The upper part of the piece, which consists of a sequence of horizontal rolls separated by a hollow set off by fillets, appears to slope steeply back from the presumably vertical plane of the lower part. The latter consists of semicircles pendant from the lowest roll.
Discussion
The pendant semicircles are seen on Jouarre, Column 16 (de Maillé 1971, 163–4, fig. 68), possibly of seventh-century date. Jouarre has similar semicircles at the corners of the capital, but the mouldings above slope outwards, rather than inwards as on the present piece.
Date
Seventh or tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 144, no. 35
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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