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Stanley Abbey. 



having cinquefoiled heads. On two of the fragments the original 

 fixing remained, which consisted of a rivet with rounded head and 



Fig. 15. — Fragments of pierced lead panels found at Stanley Abbey — 



a small piece of the material to which it was fixed remained. This 

 was apparently a thin sheet of iron, which goes against the sup- 

 position that these lead panels, which have been found in other 

 places, were ventilating quarries in lead glazing, as iron could not 

 have occurred in that position. A fragment of leading for a painted 

 window was found, which shows that the monks of Stanley, as 

 elsewhere, had broken the rule before the Suppression. 



