Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Canterbury (St Augustine's Abbey) 07, Kent 
Overview
Object type: Part of baluster
Measurements: H. 29 cm (11.4 in); W. (base) 27 cm (10.6 in); D. (base) 24 cm (9.5 in); Diameter of shaft 17.4 cm (7 in)
Stone type: Incomplete, the angles and surfaces heavily bruised; unweathered
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 46-49
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 133
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Present Location
Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Stores, Dover castle (no. 7820 3096)
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 6.
Church Dedication
St Augustine's abbey
Present Condition
Incomplete, the angles and surfaces heavily bruised; unweathered
Description
The base is of square plan and rectangular section. The front left-hand corner is broken away, and the base is roughly broken to the right and rear. The base of the shaft consists of a roll moulding above which is a hollow flanked by deep grooves. Above this is a tapering roll moulding topped by a roll moulding flanked by two similar, but narrower, recessed rolls. Above the moulded base, the shaft expands before being roughly broken away above. In the centre of the base is a deep, square, tapering hole with a flat bottom (Ill. 49).
Discussion
This base is very similar to that of the intact baluster shaft from this site (no. 6), although the precise detailing of the mouldings varies a little. It is also of a very similar size, and may have come from the same architectural scheme. A late Anglo-Saxon date can be suggested on similar grounds.
Date
Tenth or eleventh century
References
Hope 1917, 24; Brown 1925, 266; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 48
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