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ON THE OLDER FORMS OF 



In an interesting work by Thomas Wright on the Homes 

 of Other Days, many reproductions of old drawings of 

 Saxon and Norman times are given, from which some hints 

 of the kinds of roofing tiles in use may be found. From 

 the Harleian MS. dating from the ninth century, a picture 

 is given of an Anglo-Saxon house ; in this picture a variety 

 of roofing-tiles are shown, the most conspicuous of which 

 is the normal tile. The flat Roman tile is also given, and 

 another form reseml)liiig round-ended flat tiles, though 

 these may be wooden shingles. Flat Roman tiles again 



appear in another drawing of the tenth century, and in 

 another picture of this epoch the flat tile, with round end, 

 and the normal tile are represented. A picture of a town 

 of the tenth century shows only the normal tile. In an 

 Anglo-Saxon MS. of the Psalms, the normal tile is in- 

 dicated, and what appears to be an imbricated ridge of tiles. 

 In a roof shown in the Bayeux tapestry, the normal tile is 

 seen. In an early Saxon illumination, a large normal tile 

 is shown. In early Norman times, the normal tile is de- 



