Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 58, Hampshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 212
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in rubble deriving from north wing added to nave of Old Minster during tenth century; Final Phase 58 (Provisional Phase 1001), c. 1093-4
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One bed face (F, bottom?) survives, and perhaps a dressed face to the right; alternatively, the latter may simply be the edge of the carving, the surface of which is damaged.
Description

The bottom bed face is at an obtuse angle to the carved surface, which thus appears to slope forward. The carving consists of two cable twists. The smaller, to the left, is a Z-twist, fairly steep, with a lively turn in the twist. The strands are c. 2 cm wide, flatly rounded. To the right there is a much larger, S-twisting cable, more steeply angled. The strands are 3.5 cm wide and flattened. There is a sharp angle between the two cables.

Discussion
This has a different feel to the treatment of Winchester (Old Minster) nos. 54 and 56–7, and is unique among the Winchester pieces in having two different cables on the same stone.
Date
Tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 147, no. 59
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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