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14.08.2021

Decorated copper-alloy lid

This artifact, dating from the post-medieval period, likely around the 16th century, was unearthed during excavations carried out in the 1970s at the archaeological section of the Winchester Museum on Victoria Road in Winchester, Hampshire.

It takes the form of a sheet metal disc with a descending rim, which is believed to have originally served as the lid for a small cylindrical box. The surface of the disc is adorned with stamped patterns, notably featuring a winged deer at the center set against a stepped background. This item provides insight into a period when the northern suburb of Winchester had relatively sparse population, with the emergence of a large private townhouse on the site of Hyde Abbey following the dissolution of the monasteries. Even the medieval houses along Victoria Road had been demolished by this time.

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