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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 94  1978  page 91
Excavations on the Site of Leeds Priory. Part 2 The Claustral Buildings and Other Remains  By P. J. Tester, continued.
   15. Equilateral triangle, sides 3 in., and 1.1 in. in thickness. One side broken after firing; thick white slip and pale greenish glaze.
   16. Triangular, sides 2.5 in. and 1.9 in., 0.9 in. thick, cut before firing on two sides, the short side being broken after firing. No slip and dark-green glaze.
   17. Triangular, sides 4.5 in. and 2.5 in., 0.9 in. thick. Slip and traces of yellowish glaze.
   18. Lozenge-shaped, sides 2.5 in., 0.9 in. thick, with slip and glaze as for 15.
   19. Lozenge-shaped, sides 2.5 in., 1.1 in. thick. Slip and glaze as 15.
   20. Square, sides 3 in., 1.1 in. thick, with all sides cut before firing. Slip and glaze as 15.
   21. Square, sides 2.9 in., 0.9 in. thick, cut on all four sides before firing. Deeply inlaid decoration of octafoil, and pale greenish-yellow glaze.
   22. Square, sides l.9 in., 0.9 in. thick, cut before firing on all four sides. Glaze and slip as 15.
   23. Small square tile, sides 1.5 in., 1.l in. thick, with two sides cut before firing and two broken after. Very worn, with slip and glaze as 15.
   24. Hexagonal, with sides 1.5 in., 1.1 in. thick
with all sides cut before firing. Slip and glaze as 15.
    25. Rectangular, 4.3 by 1.5 in., 1.1 in. thick with the ends cut before firing and the sides broken after. No slip and dark-green glaze.
   26. Rectangular, 2.8 in. by 1.5 in., 1.1 in. thick; three sides cut before firing and one long side after. No slip and dark-green glaze.
   27. Rectangular, 2.9 by 0.9 in., 0.7 in. thick. Dark-green glaze. These form part of a very distinctive local group of rectilinear mosaic tiles. Apart from the examples found at Leeds Priory in the 1846 excavations,10  similar mosaic tiles are known from Boxley Abbey"11 and Rochester Cathedral where a pavement is intact in the north quire transept. This mosaic is different from the curvilinear type found in the Corona of Canterbury Cathedral12 or in the Cistercian abbeys of the north of England.

Group VIII.
Not figured, but see Plate IIIB in the first report. Large plain tiles, with white slip and yellow and dark-green glazes, 9.5 in. square and 1.2 in. thick, laid chequer-wise. Similar tiles have been recorded in medieval
   10 J.B.A.A., ii (1847).
    11 Arch. Cant., lxxxviii (1973), 129.
    12  E. S. Eames, 'Medieval Pseudo Mosaic Tiles', J.B.A.A., xxxviii
              (1975), 81.

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