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

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

Fragment of stained glass

Late medieval, probably 14th or 15th century

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 is impossible to say whom it represents, but the face is naturalistic and well finished, a characteristic of 15th century painting.

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