Bant / Bantega
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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]
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information
![museum entry for the fragment [Z1943/IV/141] [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220127002_compressed.png)
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23704BAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Museum: Batavialand, Museum Flevoland, Oostvaardersdijk 01-13, 8242 PA Lelystad, Z1943/IV/141
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown; disappeared church at old Bantega?]
Font Location in Church: fragment in museum
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
Church Address: [address & coordinates given for the present village] 8314 AK Bant, Netherlands
Site Location: Flevoland, Netherlands, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / fragment of a font (village and church drowned in the Zuiderzee)
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 685517 5850139
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.769167, 5.75
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 9″ N, 5° 45′ 0″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: fragment