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Description: | Twelve ceramic mosaic tiles (tesserae) recovered during a fieldwalking exercise on the site of a known Roman villa. The tiles are generally sub-square in shape and are of fairly uniform proportions, measuring between 24.3mm and 33.3mm in length and weighing between 12.72g and 27.05g. They are quite large and crudely made, suggesting that they did not come from a very fine mosaic. They are also all of the same mid-orange colour, adding further weight to the theory that the floor from which they originated was functional rather than decorative. It is probable that the tesserae were formed by breaking up larger tiles. Several of the tiles have mortar attached to their edges. The total weight of the assemblage is 218.62g. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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