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Description: | A Medieval ceramic floor tile (1350s-1390s). The square tile is decorated on the upper surface with a pattern in white slip and covered with a lead glaze. The pattern comprises a central quatrefoil within a lozenge border, at each corner of the lozenge there is a fleur-de-lys. A quatrefoil shape border encloses the pattern and there is a further fleur-de-lys in each corner of the tile. The tile is very worn with the majority of the glaze and sections of the slip decoration missing. The fabric is sandy with some clay inclusions. Jackie Keily notes it was probably manufactured in Penn, Buckinghamshire. Dimensions: length: 110.60mm; width: 112.15mm; thickness: 21.51mm; weight: 383.32g.Identification by Jackie Keily, Curator, Museum of London.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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