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Description: | An incomplete moulded Medieval ceramic floor tile, circa 1200-1400 AD. A 'two colour' floor tile, usually found in relatively high status buildings. The floor tile would have originally been rectangular but the top right corner and bottom side of the tile is missing due to old breaks. The front and the back of the tile is flat with sides sloping slightly inwards towards the reverse, resulting in the face of the tile being larger than the back. Patches of white mortar survive on the otherwise smooth sides of the tile and traces of white mortar residue are present on the reverse of the tile. The top right reverse of the tile has a triangular impression which is a possible nail hole that would have occurred during the manufacture of the tile. The fabric of the floor tile has an oxidised orange / red surface with a reduced grey core. There are no inclusions in the fabric. The inclining sides of the tile and the high quality of the fabric are further indications that this is a high quality tile. The face of the tile was stamped creating an impression that was filled with a white clay slip to create the 'two colour' design. The face of the tile was then covered in a light green glaze. The tile has a zoomorphic design with the head and forelegs of a hooved animal, probably a deer or boar, under a curvilinear band. The band is probably a fragment of a circular design suggesting that the tile is part of a design panel.A broadly comparable example of two colour tiles depicting running animals within a curvilinear motif can be found in Eames: 1992, p43, fig 47 - a panal of tiles located in Westminster Abbey Chapter House laid by 1258.The tile fragment has a length of 105.54mm but the tile would originally have been longer. The width (which is the same as the originally width) is 86.71mm. Thickness is 23.78mm. Weight is 294g.
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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