![]() Under the heading 'Evidence for Discovery' the phasing of the context in which each stone was found is given in the standard Winchester Studies format, followed by the date assigned to the final phase. The growing corpus of comparative material will doubtless resolve some of these uncertainties, but in the meantime it must be recognized that the alignments adopted here for some of the more fragmentary pieces, however complex, can be no more than proposals. In the circumstances it is often not possible to be sure which way up a stone should be seen. Many of the stones published here are badly broken, being merely the debris left behind from the dressing of the Anglo-Saxon stones for reuse in the construction of the Norman cathedral. Uncarved stones with painted decoration are not included here (see Biddle and Kjølbye-Biddle 1990a idem 1990b Oddy 1990 and below). They add nothing to knowledge of Anglo-Saxon sculpture generally, but they do add, especially in their distribution, to an understanding of the minsters and their decoration, and will therefore be drawn into the discussion and catalogue entries as necessary, identified by their Winchester worked stone (WS) numbers. These have only small, incomplete, or indistinct areas of moulding, already represented on the better preserved stones, or totally incomprehensible areas of carved surface. In addition to the 106 stones included here there are 67 other Anglo-Saxon carved stones from the Old and New Minsters. A single stone presumably derived from the New Minster cemetery (New Minster 1) was found in an early sixteenth-century deposit over the robbed New Minster domestic buildings (Building E). The two stones probably from the New Minster church come from robber-trenches in areas where these cut through Old Minster demolition rubble New Minster 2 and 3 might therefore derive from Old Minster. 1200 overlying Old Minster (Old Minster 3, 11, 13, 20, 35, 43, 49, 55, 71, 78–9, 81, 91–6), or are unstratified (Old Minster 18, 48, 50, 66) they are probably but not certainly from Old Minster. Twenty-two come either from deposits later than c. Three (Old Minster 37, 41, and 52) come from demolition debris deriving from either the baptistery, north facade, or facade chapels of Old Minster, or from the south wall of New Minster these are more likely to have come from Old Minster than New Minster. They may have been derived from New Minster church, but are more likely to have come from Old Minster or a building belonging to it. Of the twenty-nine mentioned above as probably to be associated with Old Minster, four (Old Minster 1, 61, and 64–5) were found in burial earth below the south aisle or south porticus of New Minster. ![]() It is impossible in some cases to be sure whether the stones from the Cathedral Green site came from Old Minster or New Minster (Fig. Two pieces were found in the excavations at Lower Brook Street, one (St Pancras 1) from the church of St Pancras, and a second (Lower Brook Street 1) which may originally have been from there or the church of St Mary. The former comprises: 70 pieces certainly associated with Old Minster and its cemetery and a further 29 which are probably so associated and four pieces certainly or probably associated with the church of New Minster (New Minster 5–6 are certain, 2–3 probable), together with a further three (New Minster 1, 4, and 7) associated with Building E, one of the monastic buildings of New Minster. ![]() They derive from two sites, the Cathedral Green (CG), and Lower Brook Street (BS). One hundred and eight stones recovered from excavations in Winchester between 19 are considered here.
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