Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 68, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Foliate fragment
Measurements: H. 12 > 10 cm (4.7 > 3.9 in); W. 7 > 5 cm (2.8 > 2 in); D. 7 > 3 cm (2.8 > 1.2 in)
Stone type: Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 608, 610
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 306
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 46
Evidence for Discovery
See no. 67.
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No dressed face survives; the carved face is slightly battered.
Description
This is a deeply carved leaf, apparently naturalistic, perhaps oak. Part of the face, with a strongly marked central spine, and the left side survive, with part of the top and a very small part of the right side towards the top. The relief is up to 4 cm deep on the left.
Discussion
This piece is very three-dimensional, as are Winchester (Old Minster) no. 67 (found in the same layer), and nos. 69–70 (found near-by in the same context). See Winchester (Old Minster) no. 67.
Date
Late tenth century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 150, no. 69
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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