Floor tile
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed earthenware
Measurements
99 x 70 x 25 mm
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1991071.5
Summary
Floor tile - Design 85 - Fragment - The tile is large, triangular and plain. They were created by diagonally scoring and snapping a complete tile in half. The whole tile would be similar to those inventoried as CMS no. 1991070. This tile has a dark green glaze and no scoop. Potentially 14th to 15th century. This design is not in the Burnett-Brown Tile Collection Report. The fragment is just under half the size of a full triangular tile and the only remaining original corner is acute. There a small amount of glaze along one edge of the top and along the scored and snapped side. There is some mortar stuck to the reverse and along one side.