NHER 39454 (Find Spot record) - Possibly medieval carved wood
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG33NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | MUNDESLEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
2002. Medlar Place, High Street. Found holding up a toilet seat in this property when under restoration; secondary location.
Two wooden heads. Photographs (S1) in file.
Victoria and Albert Museum suggest from photographs that these could be part of a late medieval hammerbeam roof (Mundesley church roof survived in part until about 1911).
Heads examined by E. Rose (NLA), S. Ashley (NLA), C. Proudlove (NCM) and F. Collinson (RLM) in December 2002. Conclusion reached was that they may indeed be from hammerbeams, but may also belong to carved figures from the jetty of a house, late medieval/early post medieval.
Not suitable for dendrochronology dating.
Correspondence (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 24 June 2003.
(S3) should be a useful source of reference, not yet consulted.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 April 2007.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF52568 Monograph: Haward, B.. 1999. Suffolk medieval church roof carvings: an exploratory photographic survey with notes..
- --- SNF52567 Photograph: Carter, P.E.. 2002. [unknown].
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF52566 Unpublished Document: Carter, P.E. & Rose, E.. 2002-3. Correspondence.
- <S1> SNF50602 Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
- <S2> SNF64269 Correspondence: Various.
- <S3> SNF69818 Unpublished Document: Kemp, A. F. M.. Unknown. Wooden Heads (Unpublished thesis).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (3)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- CARVING (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- SCULPTURE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Jul 10 2006 2:13PM