The Corpus: Winchester (Old Minster) 83

Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 83, Hampshire

Overview

Object type: Figural(?) fragment

Measurements: H. 9 > 6 cm (3.5 > 2.4 in); W. 11 > 8.5 cm (4.3 > 3.3 in); D. 4 > 3 cm (1.6 > 1.2 in)

Stone type: Pale yellowish-grey, medium-grained, shelly, oolitic limestone with echinoid fragments; Combe Down Oolite, Great Oolite Formation of the Bath area, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic

Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 628-629

Corpus volume reference: Vol 4 p. 312

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Present Location

Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 226

Evidence for Discovery

See no. 82.

Church Dedication

Old Minster

Present Condition

Only one dressed face survives; the carved surface is somewhat battered and there are traces of whitewash.

Description

Incomprehensible fragment of relief. The side which may be the bottom of the relief is slightly concave. Most of the surface is blank, to either side of which there are different patterns, the upper with deep, straight, narrow ridges, the lower with shallow curved ribs, like the hair on Winchester (Old Minster) no. 76 (Ill. 625).

Discussion

This fragment might be from a human figure, possibly showing the rucking of a garment like the sleeve on the left arm of the mailed figure on Winchester (Old Minster) no. 88 (Ill. 646).

Date

Late tenth century

References

Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 151, no. 84

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

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