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the only ones with significant remains of the original designs. The lombardic letters 'V S' and 'S' are yellow-stained, and though I can find no indication of the stain on any of the other pieces this does not, in view of the generally poor condition of the glass, rule out the possibility that some of them were treated in this way.

APPENDIX IV

          OBJECTS OF METAL AND STONE (Fig. 8)
1. Copper strip in two pieces. The surface, including the decoration, is gilded and the background recessed and filled with green enamel. Found at the west end of the nave.
   2. Lombardic letter S, cut from latten plate ¹/₈ in. thick. One side is smooth and the other rough, and it is most probable that it came from the marginal inscription of a monumental brass like that to Lady Joan de Cobham (c. 1310-20) in the chancel of Cobham church. Its occurrence in the area of the chapter house where burials of early priors could be expected to have been made is of obvious significance.
   3. Part of the brass candlestick, found near the chapter house.
   4. Section of one of the two water pipes found passing under the south wall of the nave (marked P-P on the plan) as described in Part I. From their situation they cannot be later than early fourteenth century

   5. Moulded lead disc with relief cross and raised rim. Found at the west end of the nave.
   6. End of a marble trough found near the layer and probably derived from its destruction, the underside is irregular and bears traces of mortar indicating that it was permanently bedded and not portable.
   7. Part of the lower half of a Mayen lava rotary pot-quern, found in the medieval stratum of the kitchen floor. Such lava querns were widely used in the period
c. 1100-1500, although precise dating of individual examples is difficult - as in the present case. This type, when complete, had an upper stone fitting into the lower, rotating on a vertical spindle secured in a hole in the base. Careful adjustment was needed to bring the faces of the two stones into correct functional relationship. In the Leeds example the interior of the base is markedly convex with dressing grooves radiating from the centre and also clear indications of the rotary motion of the upper stone. Corn would have been poured in through a hole in the centre of the upper stone and the meal emerged through an aperture where there projected a short flat-bottomed chute with vertical sides.
   A note on lava querns of medieval age by the late Dr. G. C. Dunning occurred in Antiquaries Journal, xlv (1965), 62-3.

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