Bant / Bantega
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information
Scene Description: museum entry for the fragment [Z1943/IV/141] [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Batavialand Collecties, Museum Flevoland, 2022
Image Source: digital image in the Batavialand Collecties, Museum Flevoland [https://www.batavialand.nl/] [accessed 8 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of basin - fragment
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Batavialand Collecties, Museum Flevoland, 2022
Image Source: digital image in the Batavialand Collecties, Museum Flevoland [https://www.batavialand.nl/] [accessed 8 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 23704BAN
Museum and Inventory Number: Batavialand, Museum Flevoland, Oostvaardersdijk 01-13, 8242 PA Lelystad
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown; disappeared church at old Bantega?]
Church Location: [address & coordinates given for the present village] 8314 AK Bant, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Flevoland
Directions to Site: Located off the N715, just W of the A6in the municipality of Noordoostpolder, 7 km N of Emmeloord, on the E shores of the IJselmeer
Font Location in Church: [fragment in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: a church existed in Bantega in the Middle Ages; the whole area was swalled by the Zuiderzee; soil reclaimed 1942+; some excavations carried out in the now dry area -- the present church dates from 1955
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 8 June 2022) reports a fragment of freestone baptismal font now in the Museum Flevoland; its provenance is unknown; it was found during excavation works near Bant (free find). The fragment is described and illustrated in the corresponding museum entry in the Batavialand Collecties [cf. Images area], with range date between 1250 and 1500.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.769167,
5.75
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 46′ 9″ N,
5° 45′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 685517 5850139
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: [fragment]
