Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 61, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 4.2 > 3.6 cm (1.7 > 1.4 in); W. 4.4 > 3.6 cm (1.7 > 1.4 in); D. 1.2 > 0.4 cm (0.5 > 0.2 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 593
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 302-303
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 239 (temporarily mislaid)
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in burial earth inside south aisle of New Minster, deriving from graves belonging to first or second New Minster grave generations; Final Phase 36-9 (Provisional Phase 602), early to mid tenth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No bed or dressed faces survive; the carved surface is perhaps bruised.
Description
There is a band c. 2.8 cm wide, with pellets 0.8 cm in diameter.
Discussion
This fragment is from the same layer as Winchester (Old Minster) no. 65, which contained three other fragments of Anglo-Saxon carved stone not included in the present volume: WS 240; WS 272.1; and WS 272.2. All are of Bath oolite and all probably derive from the construction of New Minster. The latter incorporated stone from one or more earlier buildings in its fabric (see Winchester (Old Minster) no. 64), and this piece of interlace seems likely to belong to this earlier group, rather than to be an accidental chip discarded from a block being carved for New Minster itself.
Date
Pre- c. 901 - 3
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle 1990b; Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 148, no. 62
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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