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Plate VIB. Part of a pinnacle found in association with grave in the north aisle of the nave. It may have come from a tomb originally covering the grave and bears remains of red paint and gilding.

APPENDIX II

MEDIEVAL FLOOR-TILES (Figs. 5 and 6)

MARK HORTON, BA.
Only in four areas of the excavation was tile flooring found in situ. Six tiles of design 1 figured here were found across the entrance to the apse of the south transept, arranged diagonally and partly covered by a blocking wall of uncertain date. Plain tiles of group VIII were found in situ on the threshold of the doorway between the cloister and the church in the central bay of the south aisle. Others were similarly situated at the entrance of the narrow apartment immediately south of the chapter house. Tile mosaic, of group VII, was found in isolated areas in front of the step into the apsidal chapel. It also occurred, not in situ, in a position and at a depth indicating that it covered the floor of the presbytery before the late-medieval rebuilding. All the remaining tiles were found in destruction levels.
On the basis of fabric, technique of manufacture and design, the tiles can be divided into eight groups:

Group I.
1-7. Fragments of decorated tiles, 5 in. square and 1 in. to 1.2 in. thick, of orange-red fabric with gritty temper and occasional gravel inclusions. Each has slightly bevelled sides with no keying, and they have been shaped by cutting. White slip decoration, ¹/₁₆ in. thick, has been applied over impression,²and has been incompletely wiped off, the design being much smudged. They have a pale greenish glaze, and have been badly fired with many cracks. The core and upper surface is grey. No. 6 has evidence of kiln-stacking, the tile having been laid flat and face down in the kiln. No. 4 has been scored before firing and broken diagonally after.
There are no good parallels for this group; local manufacture seems likely, of possibly late-thirteenth-century date.

Group II.
8 and 9. Two fragments of tiles with streaks of yellow in the fabric and a fine grit temper; steeply bevelled sides with no keying; shaped by

² P.J. Drury and G. D. Pratt, 'A late thirteenth and early fourteenth Century Tile Factory at Danbury, Essex', Med. Arch., xix (1975), 92-165

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