The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 65

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 65, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Fragment

Measurements: H. 12.5 > 7.5 cm (4.9 > 3 in); W. 9 > 7 cm (3.5 > 2.8 in); D. 6.5 > 2 cm (2.6 > 0.8 in)

Stone type: Greyish-yellow, medium-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 603-604

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 304-305

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 204

Evidence for Discovery

See no. 61.

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

Only one dressed face survives; the carved surface is crisp. The stone is burnt red and black on both the broken and carved surfaces, and has a straight fracture on the left side; it tapers towards th

Description

The carving is very precise and of high quality. The interlace consists of two broad bands crossing at right angles in two planes. The lower band comprises a broad rounded central element, 4.5 cm wide, bordered to one side by a two-strand ribbon, each strand 1.2 cm wide and angled in section, and to the other by a single similar ribbon, perhaps originally one of a pair. Crossing above at right angles there is what seems to be an even broader band consisting of a two-strand ribbon, flat in section, bordering the lower edge of a very broad, slightly rounded element, c. 4.5 cm in width.

Discussion

The fragment is from the same layer as Winchester (Old Minster) no. 61, and is probably derived from the construction of New Minster, though, like nos. 61 and 64, it was probably residual in that context. See Winchester (Old Minster) nos. 61 and 64.

Date

Pre- c. 901 - 3

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle 1990b; Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 149, no. 66

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

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