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Description: | Roman brick and tile, medieval glazed floor tiles from religious foundations
Collection of brick and tile from the Romano-British, medieval and post-medieval periods from sites all over Norfolk. These objects have formed part of the Norwich Castle Museum Archaeology collection since the earliest days of the museum and some of the tiles were collected as much for their aesthetic value as their historical and archaeological value. The Romano-British element of the collection includes mosaic tesserae, imbrex (ridge) and tegula (flat) roof tiles, floor tiles and flue tiles and bricks from forts, villas and towns. Glazed floor tiles made at Bawsey tile kiln form a large part of the medieval component and have come from sites all over west Norfolk, other medieval floor tiles have mostly been found at churches, priories and other sites of religious foundation. The collection of course features standard bricks from various archaeological sites and brick kilns around the county, such as wall bricks, unfired bricks, chamfered bricks and inscribed bricks. The post medieval period is represented by some Flemish and Delft tiles and a collection of 16th century moulded brick and terracotta for the construction fo a tomb, from Arminghall.
The collection features archives of brick and tile from the larger excavations within the county, including the Roman forts at Brancaster and Caister on Sea; the Romano-British sites at Brampton and Caistor St Edmund; Baconsthorpe, Castle Acre and Castle Rising Castles; a large archive from the Castle Mall excavation in Norwich; several medieval sites within Norwich and King's Lynn excavated by the Norwich Survey and King's Lynn Survey respectively; All Saints Church at Barton Bendish and North Elmham Park. A proportion of the archive is simply described as ceramic building material.
The collection is complemented by medieval and post-medieval tiles from the Gressenhall brick collection, which features bricks preserving straw impressions, bricks from demolished buildings and hexagonal and irregular shaped bricks | Format: | 650 individual artefacts and over 800 boxes of site archive material | Subjects: | Tiles Bricks Brickmaking Building materials Decorative features Archaeological excavations | Temporal: | Medieval 1066-1500 Romano-British 0-500 16th century - mid 1530-1575 17th century - mid 1630-1675 17th century - early 1600-1629 16th century - late 1576-1599 17th century - late 1676-1699 16th century - early 1500-1529 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7001 | Format: | 650 individual artefacts and over 800 boxes of site archive material | Go to resource |
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