Handled lamp of Caen stone. The bowl is octagonal with a concave well and a central deep hollow. The handle is also octagonal, four long sides alternating with four short. It has a right angled hole for suspension at the end. Found in a 15th-16th centur

Handled lamp of Caen stone. The bowl is octagonal with a concave well and a central deep hollow. The handle is also octagonal, four long sides alternating with four short. It has a right angled hole for suspension at the end. Found in a 15th-16th century pit. Like examples from the excavations carried out in Winchester before 1972, these stone lamps are rarely burnt, suggesting that they contained removable reservoirs. From VR72-80, Victoria Road, Winchester, Hampshire. Excavated by Winchester Archaeology Section, 1972-1980.

Stone lamp

Medieval

Found in the 1970s during excavations by Winchester Museum Service Archaeology Section at Victoria Road, Winchester, Hampshire

This well made lamp was carved from the fine grained limestone quarried at Caen in Normandy, and perhaps the house from which it came was rather well furnished. History records that the tenant of one of the properties on the Victoria Road site in 1362 was the quite well-to-do William le Hornere- innkeeper, brewer, tapster and citizen. It is possible this lamp belonged to him or one of his relatives.

Handled lamp of Caen stone. The bowl is octagonal with a concave well and a central deep hollow. The handle is also octagonal, four long sides alternating with four short. It has a right angled hole for suspension at the end. Found in a 15th-16th centur