Record ID: DOR-3DC661
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a limestone roof tile. The pointed apex of a probably lozengiform roof tile. There is a sub circular chipped hole at the apex. This has been pecked from one face of the tile only. Roof tiles such as these are common on Roman sites, but continue in use into the 19th century. Date: Roman to Post medieval - 100 to 1800 Dimensions: 64 mm x 111 mm x 17 mm Weight: 184 g
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stour Provost', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DOR-334D76
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a limestone roof tile. The pointed apex of a probably lozengiform roof tile. There is a sub circular chipped hole at the apex. This has been pecked from both faces. The material is Purbeck Marble, a fossiliferous limestone found in south Dorset (the Isle of Purbeck). Roof tiles such as these are common on Roman sites, but continue in use into the 19th century. Date: Roman to Post medieval - 100 to 1800 Dimensions: 127 mm x 157 mm x 20 mm Weight: 487 g
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th November 2014
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Record ID: WILT-F2CFFD
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly incomplete roof tile of indeterminate date. It is of limestone, probably from Purbeck.These limestones are fossiliferous and part-crystalline, harder than purely oolitic limestones and extremely durable. It is sub-rectangular in shape, but may originally have been a narrow hexagon. It is oval in cross-section (the two surfaces being slightly convex but tapering towards each edge) and has a single approximately central circular hole neatly drilled at a slightly downward angle, close to what is presumably the upper end. The stone has been worked to leave a thinner sectio…
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Sunday 5th December 2021
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