Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Winchester (Old Minster) 84, Hampshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Winchester City Museum, Historic Resources Centre, Hyde House, Winchester, accessions no. 2943 WS 462
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavation north of Winchester cathedral in 1967 in Norman rubble deriving from westwork of Old Minster; Final Phase 61 (Provisional Phase 1602), late eleventh-century
Church Dedication
Old Minster
Present Condition
One dressed face (F, bottom) survives; the carved surface is somewhat battered.
Description
This is a human left leg; the calf, heel, and the beginning of the foot, with the top line of a shoe, survive.
Discussion
This piece is comparable to the legs of the mailed figure on Winchester (Old Minster) no. 88 (Ill. 646), and is of approximately the same scale.
Date
Late tenth or early eleventh century
References
Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle forthcoming a, fig. 151, no. 85
M.B.; B.K.-B.
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