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Medieval ceramic floor tile
Lewis Group 21 no. 318B
Slip-on impression.4-tile design: a barbed quatrefoil frame with repeating inscription: fiat voluntas dei (May the Will of God be done), surrounding four shields of arms: three lions passant guardant (royal arms of England, pre-1340); outsidet he frame each corner has apair of birds flanking a central stem. BM Design 1480 (Gloucester Cathedral, Great Malvern Priory).
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).