Copper alloy lid. Decorated. Part of a sheet disc with slight turned down rim, probably a decorative cover for the lid of a small box. The edge has a border of irregularly applied stamped florets within pairs of concentric grooves, and there is a small circular motif, probably also stamped of a winged stag against a stippled background. The disc was attached to a larger object by three small pins or rivets, the holes for which survive close to the edge. Probably of 16th century date. Found in a 15th to 16th century pit. From VR72-80, Victoria Road, Winchester, Hampshire. Excavated by Winchester Museums Archaeology Section, 1972-1980.
Decorated copper-alloy lid
Post-medieval, probably 16th century
Found in the 1970s during excavations by Winchester Museums Archaeology Section at Victoria Road, Winchester, Hampshire
This is a sheet metal disc with a downturned rim that was probably originally a cover for the lid of a small cylindrical box. It is decorated with stamped designs, including, in the centre, a winged stag on a stippled background. The object is from a time when Winchester's northern suburb was thinly populated, as the Dissolution of the Monasteries had seen Hyde Abbey replaced by a large private town house, and even the medieval houses on the Victoria Road site had been demolished.
