Tossene

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BH01: human figure - male - head - wearing headdress or crown

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920901F4] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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BH02: human figure - male - head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920901F4] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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BH03: human figure - male - head - bearded

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1971 by S. Westergren, supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI

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BH04: animal - mammal - ram - head

Scene Description: on the left side of the image

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1971 by S. Westergren, supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotenäs_Tossene_kyrka_BBR_21300000002954_IMG_6945.JPG] [accessed 3 January 32014]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Source caption: "I förgrunden ses Batterihögerna, totalt ca 40 graver från jernåldern lokaliserad runt kyrkan." [about forty Iron Age graves in the area around the church]

Scene Description: Source caption: "I förgrunden ses Batterihögerna, totalt ca 40 graver från jernåldern lokaliserad runt kyrkan." [about forty Iron Age graves in the area around the church]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotenäs_Tossene_kyrka_BBR_21300000002954_IMG_6958.JPG] [accessed 3 January 32014]

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view of font - fragment

Scene Description: showing heads 1 and 2

Image Source: digital image in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F4] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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view of base

Scene Description: the stem and lower base as shown in the Museum records

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a B&W photograph supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI

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information

Scene Description: the Museum record (p. 1)

Image Source: digital image of B&W photograph supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16933TOS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment

Date Visited: 2010-08-11

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcariustyp [cf. FontNotes]

Museum: Göteborgs stadsmuseum [in storage], G.M. 157 [formerly G.M. 1580?]

Church / Chapel Name: Tossene kyrka

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Church Notes: present church built 1859 a hundred yards from the site of the medieval one;

Church Address: [NB: address and coordinates for the church] 456, Hunnebostrandsgatan 93, 416 74 Göteborg, Sweden

Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe

Directions to Site: Tossene is located just W of Munkedal and the E6, NNW of Uddevalla, in the municipality of Sotenäs

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift

Historical Region: Sotenäs härad

Additional Comments: damaged font: only a fragment remains -- disused font: in a museum [NB: no BSI photos found in our archive (??)]

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Roosval (1918). In Hallbäck (1961). Described and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920901F4] as a fragment of a baptismal font made of limestone and dated to the first half of the13th century; it is described as "Calcariustyp" ['Calcarius' being one of the medieval workshops of Gotland]; now in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum. On-site notes: the fragment is now [August 2010] at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum [storage unit]; it appears to be the stem of a Romanesque font, a cylindrical shape with a thick roll moulding at the upper end; this moulding has four heads at 90-degree angles: three of the heads are human, male; one of the three wears head gear and is turned sideways; of the other two human heads one is clean-shaven, the other has a beard; the fourth head is animal, probably a ram. One of the photographs in the archive of the museum at Göteborg shows the fragment mounted of a splaying lower base decorated with diagonal ribbed pattern; all other photographs show the fragment on its own, without the lower base. The present font in use at the church is made of wood and dates probably from the building of the new church in the mid-19th century.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, and to Lennart Karlsson, of 'Medeltidens bildvärld', for their help in documenting this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 32V 638636 6480774

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.445628, 11.375303

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 26′ 44.26″ N, 11° 22′ 31.09″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: fragment

Font Shape: round, with heads

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: no lining

Height of Base: 29 cm* / 30 cm**

Square Base Dimensions: 56 cm* / 58 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld / ** Göteborgs stadsmuseum

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961, p. 42, 55fn
Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918, p. 197ff