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Medieval ceramic floor tile
Lewis Group 21 no. 306
Slip-on impression. Part of a 16-tile design (made up of nos. 304-6) BM Design 2897 (Great Malvern Priory).
The overall 16-tile design comprises a circle of linked five-petalled roses flanked by double lines enclosing a quatrefoil containing leaf designs (centre tile not present); outside the circle in each corner a shield of arms: a cross patonce between five martlets (Westminster Abbey, the mother house of Gloucester Abbey), flanked by two traceried roundels containing a trefoil and a quatrefoil respectively.
A fragment of a decorated ceramic floor tile
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Site Name: Cadogan House, Monmouth
Notes: The site of a kiln producing floor and roof tiles, north of the Priory Church. The most significant finds consisted of kiln wasters of of tiles belonging to the Malvernian series, roof tiles and a dump of unused clay (Lewis, J, M. 1999. The Medieval Tiles in Wales).