Volume 10: The West Midlands

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Current Display: Gloucester (Priory) 26, Gloucestershire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Gloucester Museum 41/75 WKS 74; Bryant 1999, no. 65
Evidence for Discovery
Found in archaeological excavations 1975–83, reused in Period III, late tenth-century foundations.
Church Dedication
St Oswald
Present Condition
Small and rather damaged
Description

Fragment of carved ?window-frame, rebated and splayed on one side. The front face consists of a flat-faced fillet and a concave moulding separated by a narrow groove.

Discussion

This small fragment was reused in Period III and must therefore belong to one of the first two periods in the development of the church (see also Gloucester St Oswald 25).

Date
Tenth century
References
Bryant 1999, 171, 175–6, no. 65, fig. 4.25
Endnotes

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