Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 53, Hampshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 581
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1969 in rubble below Norman Memorial Court and above westwork of Old Minster. Final Phase 65 (Provisional Phase 1859), early twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One bed face survives; the moulding is battered.
Description

If the moulding is seen vertically, the bed face is at the bottom. To the left a dressed face meets the carved face in a wide angle. The ground of the carved surface has survived to the left of the moulding and can just be seen again to the right. There are two parts to the moulding: an angled rib, 3.6 cm wide, on the left, and a cable, c. 4 cm in diameter, with rounded horizontal segments, 2.3 cm wide, on the right.

Discussion
The carving is precise. This carving could have come from the eighth-century St Martin's Tower, later incorporated in the tenth-century westwork.
Date
Seventh to ninth century or later
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 147, no. 53
M.B.; B.K.-B.
Endnotes

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