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ON THE OLDER FORMS OF 



were found in a local museum. These had Gothic scrolls 

 and leaves springing from their crests; in one case the 

 finial was held to the tile by an iron rod, as a dowel. 

 (The height of this tile was .67 centimetres.) These 



tiles were labelled Nicholas Chapel, fifteenth century (fig. 

 73). At Tnterlachen, the flat tile was seen on some of the 

 older buildings, the modern structure being roofed with 

 modern forms of tiles, which seemed to have certain mer- 

 its in securing a tight roof (figs. 74 and 75).^ 



1 A modern interlocking tile is made at AUkirch village, Canton of Berne, by 

 Gilardoni Brothers. I found it on many houses at Berne, and, if I remember 

 rightly, it was the tile used on the new arsenal at Berne. 



