Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 80, Hampshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 443
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1966 in Norman masons' chipping layer over west end of seventh-century nave of Old Minster; Final Phase 68 (Provisional Phase 1098), early to mid twelfth-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
No dressed faces survive; the carved surface is somewhat battered and there are traces of whitewash.
Description
The outer side of a left hand beginning to curve to grip an upright, for example, a staff. The scale is a little less than life size.
Discussion
This fragment is similar to the hands on Winchester (Old Minster) no. 88 (Ill. 646) and probably from a comparable relief.
Date
Late tenth to early eleventh century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 151, no. 81
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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