Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 45, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 10 > 9 cm (3.9 > 3.7 in); W. 8.5 > 6 cm (3.3 > 2.4 in); D. 4.5 > 2 cm (1.8 > 0.8 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 572
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 296
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 81
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in rubble from demolition of tenth-century eastern apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 65 (Provisional Phase 679), early twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No dressed face survives; the relief of the carving is well preserved.
Description
This is part of a running scroll as seen best on Winchester, Ha. (Old Minster) no. 47 (Ill. 576). The relief of the scroll is 2 cm high.
Discussion
See Winchester (Old Minster) no. 47.
Date
Tenth century or earlier
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 146, no. 45
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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