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Description: | A fragment of a medieval encaustic (painted and fixed through heat) floor tile. The tile is of an oxidised orange colour with faded yellowy glaze in the recessed designs and traces of probable brown glaze on the surface. Two perpendicular straight edges survive to differing extents; the rest of the tile is broken. The upper and lower surfaces are abraded; the lower has a loss presumably formed before the tile was fired. A similar tile can be found illustrated in Eames (1980, 500; ref. 7734/design ref. 1722). This design is unfortunately is unprovenanced but has been attributed to the Wessex school and the 13th and 14th centuries. The larger design bore four shields arranged each corner around a central quatrefoil motif. This arrangement is decoratively similar to design refs. 1720 and 1721 which feature (clockwise from top right) shields checky, fretty, barry (in chief, three uncertain objects), and chevronny. Examples of the design have been found respectively at Salehurst church, East Sussex, and Chertsey Abbey, Surrey. Based on the parallel found this tile would originally have been approximately 200mm squared; less than a quarter of the whole tile therefore remains. One of the five recesses survives with traces of fixative on the lower surface.
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