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Medieval ceramic floor tile
Lewis Group 21 no. 345. Slip-on impression. 4-tile design: circular band with indecipherable (probably mock) inscription surrounding a quatrefoil outlined by a similarly inscribed band; set diagonally between the circle and angles of the quatrefoil are four portcullis emblems (Somerset); in each corner outside the circle a weeping foilage motif. Sir Charles Somerset (c.1460-1526), son of Henry Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who married Elizabeth only child of William Herbert, Lord Herbert of Raglan, was the ancestor of the Dukes of Beaufort (Siddons 1993).
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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 tiles belonging to the Malvernian series, roof tiles and a dump of unused clay (Lewis, J, M. 1999. The Medieval Tiles in Wales).