Bone tuning peg from Wickham Glebe.

Tuning peg

Medieval, 13th to 15th centuries

Found during excavations by Winchester Museums Service Archaeology Section in a field just east of Wickham Square (opposite St Nicholas Church) in the mid- to late 1970s

This tuning peg of bone, from the site of Wickham Manor House, once secured the strings of a musical instrument, the main part of which has not survived burial in the ground. Although they are fairly common site finds, this object suggests that a degree of sophistication in home entertainment prevailed at the manor during medieval times.