Collection of coloured window glass from context 6001, Evans Halshaw site, Hyde Street, Winchester (WINCM:AY 35).

Window glass

Medieval and early Tudor in in date

Found by Wessex Archaeology at the Evans Halshaw site (now Silchester Place), Hyde Street, Winchester, Hampshire in the early 2000s

It is quite unusual to find such a large deposit- altogether about 7.5 kg- of medieval stained glass, as the looting of Hyde Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries was on such a scale that whole windows might be removed and taken away. The fragments represent several windows of different dates ranging from the 12th to the 15th centuries, which appear to have been vandalised for their window lead.