o78 Stanley Ahhey. 



place to the stone miues of the present day, which are such a pe- 

 culiar feature of the neighbourhood. In Aubrey's time " Haselbury 

 Quarre is not to be forgott, it is the eminentist free-stone quarrey 

 in the "West of England, Malmesbury and all round the country 

 of it." ^ In an old map of the seventeenth century belonging to 

 tlie late Mr. Peter Pinchen, of Box, " Haiselbury Queres " are 

 marked on the top of Box Hill northward of the old London Eoad. 



In the plinths, and steps, and where else freestone was bedded 

 upon the rubble, tl)e joints were packed with pieces of red roofing 

 tiles. 



The columns, capitals, and bases of the cloister and chapter- 

 house were, instead of the .usual Purbeck marble, made from a 

 hard blue lias rock similar to that found at Keynsham. These 

 were bedded with sheets of lead; which were found in connection 

 with the main pillars of the cRSipter-house, but the similar bedding 

 of the smaller columns had' doubtlessly been made a source of 

 profit at the Suppression, as was done at Eievaulx.- 



Few fragments of interest beyond those described in connection 

 with the buildings were found ; there were, however, pieces of two 

 twelfth century capitals unearthed on the site of the monks' in- 

 firmary and a large terminal of thirteenth century leafwork. A 

 very curious stone was found in the cellarium bearing what looks 

 like a shield of arms, but the charge of a chevron between three 

 wolves' heads erased is reversed on the shield, and there are rough 

 scratchings which look like the sketch of a helmet. 



The roofs appear to have been covered for the most part with 

 plain flat red tiles,^ holed for round and square pegs, two in each 

 tile. The creasing was of the same material, but glazed, of saddle- 

 back form, and had a scallopped cresting. A few of the ordinary 

 stone tiles of the neighbourhood were found, but in such small 



' Jackson's Aubrey's Collections for Wiltshire (Devizes, 1862), 58. 



■ Rievaulx Cartulary (Surtees Society), Ixxxiij., ccclxxv. "The lede of 

 the joyntes of pyllers and other placys, of as much as is defased of the 

 premyssis there, now is fastenyd within stonys not lose, sold to — Benson of 

 York for xxvj*. viijrf." 



^ On two tiles were found the impress of animals' feet — apparently of a dog 

 and sheep. 



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