THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 



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fingers of the workman. On one large vessel which I had 

 the good fortune to exhume, however, and which is repre- 

 sented on the preceding page, were the horse shoes, &c., the 

 badges of the Ferrars family, laid on in slip, and a kind of 

 herring-bone ornament scratched into the soft clay. On 



other examples heads were rudely formed, as were also, 

 occasionally, figures of horses and men. 



Kilns for the manufacture of tiles existed in Staffordshire 

 from an early period ; and the name of Telwright, or Tile- 

 wright, is one connected with the pottery district for many 

 centuries. At Great Saredon, a few years ago, a kiln, where 

 tiles had been made, was exhumed. The manufacture of 

 ornamental paving tiles was one of considerable importance 

 till within the last two centuries, and many religious houses 



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