Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 39, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 12 > 7.5 cm (4.7 > 3 in); W. 6.2 > 2 cm (2.4 > 0.8 in); D. 6.5 > 1 cm (2.6 > 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. 564
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 292
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 584
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1969 in great charnel placed in Norman robbing of Anglo-Saxon westwork; Final Phase 62 (Provisional Phase 1662), c. 1100
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
Only one bed face survives; the carved surface is well preserved.
Description
The fragment consists of a row of dentils, 2.2 cm high. Below the dentils there is a border, 2 cm wide, above a band recessed 3 mm, which is in turn above a 3 mm wide raised band. The decoration is not horizontal, but on a slight curve. The dressed face is on the left side. There is a hint that the decoration continues round the corner on the bottom 2 cm of the dressed face side.
Discussion
The present piece is perhaps part of complex decoration around an opening: compare Winchester (Old Minster) no. 91. It could be derived from anywhere in Old Minster.
Date
Seventh-century or later
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 145, no. 39
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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