Description: | From old card index: "Swan crest of Bohun.
Single pattern tile; square, worn. (Accidental damage)."
Swan in centre of tile. Slip inlay, unglazed., From Eames, type 1936, provenance Byland Abbey, Yorkshire, C mid 13th, Founded in 1215 by Premonstratensian or Norbertine Canons, an order that follows the Augstinian Rule, in an enclave of Shropshire that now falls into Worcestershire. It was a wealthy abbey with large estates, although unpopular with its tenants, who mounted an attack in 1279, after which the Abbot requested greater fortifications. It was suppressed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. After this point, the lands went to the Duke of Northumberland, and most the buildings have since had their stones robbed out for other constructions, save those converted to farm buildings.
Accession number: NCM 1963-353 |