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Medieval ceramic floor tiles
Lewis Group 23 no.357 No detectable impression. 16-tile design: circular band of chamfered uprights (perhaps representing a park pale) surrounding a frieze of hunting dogs, decorated with plants and flower motifs; at the centre a circular band of five petalled roses surrounding a complex design of interlinked quatrefoil and a square including fleurs-de-lys; in each outer corner a man with drawn bow aims an arrow, again decorated with flower motifs. For figure of archer and form of 'paling' cf Haughmond Abbey (Lunt and Lisk forthcoming no.s 140, 142 and 62).
Tile with hunting dog, 1400s. Found at Whitland Abbey, west Wales.
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Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
20.76
Find Information
Site Name: Whitland Abbey, Carmarthenshire
Measurements
length / mm:136
width / mm:133
thickness / mm:26.1
weight / g:776.8
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