Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 77, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Figural fragment
Measurements: H. 8.8 > 4.5 cm (3.5 > 1.8 in); W. 6 > 4 cm (2.4 > 1.6 in); D. 2.5 > 0.5 cm (1 > 0.2 in)
Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, medium-grained, oolitic limestone; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 622
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 310
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 7
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1964 in Norman rubble derived from nave and baptistery of Old Minster; Final Phase 60-7 (Provisional Phase 992), late eleventh- to early twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One possible dressed face survives, the carved surface is in fairly good condition; burnt, with traces of whitewash.
Description
This appears to be hair, with strands almost right-angled in cross-section. The left of the head is at the bottom of the relief.
Discussion
The nearest parallel is the hair of the figure in the elaborate scene from this site (no. 88; Ill. 647). The present fragment is likely to have come from a relief of about the same size as Winchester (Old Minster) no. 88, and perhaps of the same date.
Date
Late tenth to early eleventh century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 151, no. 78
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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