Painted window glass shard, depicting an eye. From context 6001, Evans Halshaw site, Hyde Street, Winchester (WINCM:AY 35).

Stained glass fragment

Medieval, probably late medieval

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

This fragment was found at Hyde Abbey amongst the broken remains of several different windows, in a demolition layer from the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It depicts quite naturalistically a pair of large staring eyes with a straight aquiline nose in the middle - not enough of the design remains to suggest whom it might represent.