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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
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).
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).
