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Fragment (Side, right)

Fragment (Side, right)
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Side, left

Subject
Religious.

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London, Museum of London

Inv. C972

Bone

Height: 69.5mm
Width: 14.2mm
Depth: 5.1mm

Saint George and the dragon.

London 1940: 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: English (?), 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
The object has a peg-shaped base. Three longitudinal holes and one central circular hole seems to indicate that the piece may have been fastened onto something else (?).

Provenance
Found at Lambeth, London (Lambeth). Collection of Dr. Frank Corner; given to the London Museum in 1912 (opened to the public in 1914); London Museum merged with the Guildhall Museum in 1976 to form the Museum of London.

Bibliography
Medieval Catalogue, London Museum Catalogues No. 7 (London, 1940), p. 292, pl. LXXXIX.2
D. Turner, C. Orton, '199 Borough High Street Excavations in 1962', in Research Volume of the Surrey Archaeological Society 7 (Guildford, 1979), pp. 1-25 (p. 19, pls. III and IV).


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