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Description: | Incomplete ceramic building material probably a tile of Roman date. The object is sub-rectangular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. The upper and lower faces of the object undulate slightly. The upper face is orange in colour with narrow striations running parallel across the length. Imprinted on this face are two paw prints from a small animal, possibly a cat or small dog.The complete print consists of a central pad above which are four toes with small perforations above which are probably from the nails of the animal. Three more small perforations between the toes and pad of this foot are likely to be the imprint from the previous footstep which is incomplete due to the break at the edge of the tile and obscured with the overlaying print. An irregular mid-white stone is embedded in the base of the underlying print where the tile terminates with a break. It is likely that these foot prints occurred when the tile was drying but still soft immediately after its creation.The lower face of the object is undulating and pitted with a rough grey to mid orange surface. A horizontal linear groove within the surface may be due to the object lying on a twig or similar object while drying.Two of the edges of the object have been evenly cut. These two edges and a third broken edge are reddish orange in colour with occasional inclusions of small stones. The fourth broken edge has a central band of grey where the oxygen was reduced in firing surrounded with reddish orange margins which have been oxidised.
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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