The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 48

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 48, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment of frieze

Measurements: H. 12.5 > 11 cm (4.9 > 4.3 in); W. 7 > 4.5 cm (2.8 > 1.8 in); D. 6.5 > 0.5 cm (2.6 > 0.2 in)

Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, medium- to coarse-grained, very shelly, oolitic limestone, bedding parallel to the long axis of the stone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 579

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 297

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 70

Evidence for Discovery

Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965, in debris from collapsed excavation baulk. Unstratified, but probably from Norman spreads in or above robber-trench of tenth-century east apse of Old Minster

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

No dressed face survives, but there is a sliver of carved surface, which is damaged.

Description

Part of the same border or string pattern as Winchester, Ha. (Old Minster) nos. 47 and 49.

Discussion

This pattern has also been found on no. 47 (found near the present piece). See Winchester (Old Minster) no. 47.

Date

Seventh century or later

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 146, no. 48

M.B.; B.K.-B.

Endnotes