The Corpus: Keynsham 02 (abbey)

Volume 7: South West England

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Current Display: Keynsham 02 (abbey), Somerset

Overview

Object type: Fragment of a shaft

Measurements: H. 13 cm (6 in); W. 16 > 13.5 cm (6.5 > 5.25 in); D. 10 cm (4 in)

Stone type: Yellowish grey (10YR 8/3) oolite composed of closely-set ooliths of 0.3 to 0.5mm diameter with a few of 0.6mm, represented by vacant sockets, with no obvious pellets or shell fragments; one calcite veinlet. Bath stone, Chalfield Oolite Formation, Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic [1]

Plate numbers in printed volume: Pls. 279-81

Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 165

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Present Location

As Keynsham 1

Evidence for Discovery

In rubble under the floor of the south transept near to Keynsham 1 (Cottle and Lowe 1987, 104)

Church Dedication

the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Peter and St Paul

Present Condition

Fragmentary and very worn

Description

A: Part of a flat-band border survives enclosing well modelled interlace.

B: Broken away

C: Cut through with section of a dowel hole

D: Moulding and worn traces of interlace survive.

Discussion

Despite its wear this was once a competently carved piece. It may be, as has been suggested, part of the same monument as Keynsham 1 (Cottle and Lowe 1987, 104), but the intervals between the strands are different.

Date

c. 800

References

Foster 1984, 81, no. 44, fig. 7d; Cottle and Lowe 1987, 104, no. 2, pl. 2; Foster 1987, 76, no. 41

Endnotes

[1] The identification of stone type here, and in Keynsham 3–9 and 12, is by B. C. Worssam.