Volume 4: South-East England
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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 78, Hampshire 
Overview
Object type: Fragment
Measurements: H. 4 > 2.5 cm (1.6 > 1 in); W. 13.5 > 4 cm (5.3 > 1.6 in); D. 6 > 3 cm (2.4 > 1.2 in)
Stone type: Greyish-yellow, medium-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone, including echinoid fragments; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 621
Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 310-311
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Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 69
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1965 in medieval burial earth above, and east of, tenth-century east apse of Old Minster; Final Phase 81-2 (Provisional Phase 657), mid fifteenth- to early sixteenth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No dressed face survives; the carved surface is battered.
Description
The piece has a long projecting central element, rounded but flattened. There is a tripartite pattern below and a flat surface above.
Discussion
The piece cannot be interpreted, but must be part of a carving in high relief.
Date
Late tenth to eleventh century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 151, no. 79
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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