By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 579 



quantity as to preclude the possibility of their having been used 

 to any extent. 



The floors of the principal buildings, as already noticed, were 

 laid with tiles. The chief patterns are illustrated, and are 

 of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. From fragments 

 of similar tiles having been found at Nash-hill, between 

 Stanley and Lacock, where the Eomans had kilns, it is almost 

 certain that these tiles were made there.^ The tiles are formed 

 of a red clay of an even hardness, though in many cases much 

 distorted by burnhig. The slip is of a good white clay that burnt 

 •evenly with the tile; bub the glaze is very inferior, having burnt 

 generally to a dark yellow colour, and was badly applied. Some 

 of the plain tiles were of a bright green colour, and others were 

 white. The patterns are mostly of ordinary forms, though the 

 fourteenth century series of 8 inch tiles is remarkably fine. 



Various Objects Found. 



A few objects in the way of curiosities were found, of which the 

 principal were various fragments of pottery. This occurred in 

 large quantities near the kitchen, but the pieces were so frag- 

 mentary that in no case could anything like a perfect vessel be 

 recovered. The majority of the pieces were of a bright green 

 glazed ware of good character. A couple of pieces of a small jug, 

 found in the kitchen cupboard, were of a thin hard brown ware 

 with good glazing inside and out. 



Three fragments of little lead panels of open tracery work 

 generally supposed to be ventilators in leaded windows, of fifteenth 

 century work, were found with another piece of a different pattern, 

 The panels were, when perfect, 3| inches square, formed of two 

 concentric circles, the middle of which was a quatrefoil, and the 

 space between the rings was filled with eight radiating panels 



' The fragments referred to were picked up some years ago by Mr. C. H. 



Talbot, of Lacock Abbey. The writer found identical tiles at Box Church, 

 though one of these latter, which was also found at Nash Hill, of the arms 

 of Richard, earl of Cornwall, did not occur at Stanley. A few in the fine 

 collection at Lacock Abbey came frojn the same kilns. 



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