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Description: | Six fragments of medieval ceramic floor tiles in a sandy fabric and of East Anglian manufacture. The full widths of only two are extant. Lime mortar remains on the reverse of two. All bar one are relief decorated. The cores of the plain example and of four of the decorated are dark grey reduced and the surfaces, apart from the centre of the upper face, are oxidised brick red. The best preserved of the decorated is entirely oxidised and has lost all glazing. All the others retain patchy lead glaze on the upper face and to a lesser extent on the sides. The five decorated fragments all carry parts of the same design, a stylised scallop shell, the same as that found on a tile from the church set in a niche in the ruined tower (Sherlock 1980, 19 and 33, no. 40), "conceivably heraldic. Falstaff of Oulton is a possibility in this instance".Paul Drury comments "They fit into our Late Suffolk Relief Tile group (Group 97 series B); date, late 14th century; broadly contemporary with Bawsey.Width of plain tile 136mm, thickness 25mm. Width of decorated tile 130mm. Thickness 21-4mm. Total weight 1.118kg.Found during consolidation work by Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust on the ruined church of St Margaret on the surface or close to the surface around the outside of the walls.
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