Record ID: ESS-659BA2
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ceramic tile of Roman date (AD 43 - 410) with probable opus signinum concrete attached. Description The tile is rectangular in plan but one corner has been lost with a 45 degree break approximately 140mm long. Concrete is attached to both faces and 120mm of one edge, from which it overhangs by about 31mm. The concrete on one face retains most of the surface where it attached to the next tile, and finishes with a straight edge 90mm from the complete short edge of the tile. The thickness of the concrete on this face increases evenly from 45mm to 50mm. There are&…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-435A6F
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub rectangular piece of ceramic, crudely moulded. It is orange in colour with some large inclusions. It is a corner of a large, thick tile, with slightly inward sloping sides. One the top of the tile, two crossing lines have been scratched in while the clay was wet, presumably to enable adherence of plaster or similar. It is likely to be part of a hypocaust or box flue system. Found in the vicinity of Roman tile kilns and may possibly have been manufactured there, clay pits have also been identified at the site. Dimensions: 98mm long and 60mm wide, it is 31mm thick and weighs …
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Quernmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-E18079
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a ceramic object, likely a tile of Roman date (c. AD 43-410). The object is roughly parallelogram in plan and has a sub-rectangular cross section. The object has reddish-orange surfaces, margins, and core. The fabric has sparse to moderate, poorly sorted coarse quartz inclusions, along with possible sparse grog tempering. One side is largely flat whilst the other has the remnants of a paw print of an animal. Due to the size (23.21mm wide and 20.82mm), lack of clear claw marks, and asymmetry of the paw print, it is most likely the paw print of a cat. Dimen…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: ESS-E8BA34
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of four fragments of ceramic building material of Roman date (c.43 AD - 410 AD). Fragment 1: Description: The object is broadly rectangular in plan. One face is smooth and bears some encristed mortar or similar. It is made from a hard red fabric. A thick grey core is visible in three broken edges, suggesting that the other edge is original.  Measurements: length: 158mm; width: 110.1mm; thickness: 31.3mm; weight: 841g Fragment 2:  Description: The object is broadly rectangular in plan. Edges are broken. One face is smooth, the other rough. It is mad…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: ESS-E7DD1E
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of four fragments of ceramic roof tile or tegula of Roman date (c.43 AD - 410 AD). Description:  Tegula fragment 1: The object is broadly triangular in plan and L-shaped in cross-section with a projecting flange which would have secured a curved imbrex tile. Other edges are broken and irregular. It is made from a soft bright orange fabric. Ther is a stone inclusion 6.2mm in diameter in the underside.  Measurements: length: 153.7mm; width: 91.8mm; height: 44.1mm; thickness: 22.5mm; weight: 425g Tegula fragment 2: The object is broadly triangular…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: WILT-62AA07
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman box ceramic flue tile or voussoir block, dating to c. AD 43-410. The find is sub-square in plan, with an orange, oxidized outer surface and combed decoration, making six partial arcs. The inner surface is light grey in colour, with some voids (largest is 2.7mm x 2.3mm) as though organic matter was included in the clay. Well-sorted, sub-angular probable flint inclusions are present too, of an intermediate frequency and up to 1.5mm in length. Dimensions: length: 18.4mm; width: 14.9mm; thickness: 5.9mm; weight: 2.0g. Rachael Seager Smith of Wessex Archaeolo…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
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Record ID: IOW-413F35
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman tile or other ceramic building material, c.AD 43 - 410. The tile has no original edges left, but instead is irregularly broken, particularly down the right side and the base. The tile is oxidised, with both surfaces being reddish-orange in colour and circa 36 mm thick. The core is orange. The object has a dense fabric tempered with irregular, small, angular grit with patches of grog.
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A07047
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three fragments of Roman ceramic tile, including one scrap, weight 312g, thickness 19 and 23mm, mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-DBED05
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of ceramic building material, most likely a Roman roofing tile. Hard, dark orange, laminated fabric. Frequent well sorted quartz and dark red inclusions. Slightly curved.The fragment is 40.73mm long, 27.24mm wide, 23.32mm thick and weighs 31.31g.
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-4CCA00
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn Roman tile fragment. One side has a partial paw print from a medium sized dog with impressions of two claws and three pads evident. The original length of the print would have been around 55mm. The tile is 14.9mm thick and has a fine sandy fabric with few larger inclusions. The colour is oxidised reddish brown throughout. All sides are broken and abraded from prolonged exposure to the river.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2023
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Record ID: DEV-D8C9D8
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large, broadly rectangular fragment from a ceramic box flue (hypocaust) tile of Roman date. One original edge survives at the end of one of the short edges, and one of the broken lateral edges is close to the point of one of the corners of the tile, which would have been cuboid-shaped with open ends. On the front of the tile there are two areas of diagonal combing, one overlying the other, to form an X. The complete (overlying) combed linear is 54mm wide and is formed from a comb with nine teeth. Measurements: length 157 mm, width 104 mm, thickness 20 mm, weight&…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillingford St George', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-CBB45C
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A large fragment of a Roman floor tile with paw print dating AD43-410. The tile fragment is rectangular with one flat even surface and one irregular. One long edge of the tile appears to be original with the three other edges comprising worn breaks. On flatter side near the corner are two circular depressions from a paw print of a small animal, probably a cat. The pale orange brown fabric is hard with occasional angular red and white inclusions of <2mm. Measurements: length: 94mm; width: 87mm; thickness:37.5mm and weight: 423g. A Roman box file fragm…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-CB728B
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A large fragment of a Roman Box flue tile dating AD43-410. The tile fragment is rectangular with combed linear bands comprising five raised ribs in a saltire arrangement from corner to corner with a third central transverse band from each long edge. This is set within a rectangular border comprising a further band running inside each edge. One long edge of the tile (adjacent to the organic void on the combed face), appears to be original with the three other edges comprising worn breaks.The orange brown fabric is hard and coarse. It is suggested that…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-62C1C7
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
15 Roman tile fragments, weight 861g: A4, one 27mm thick (27g); B1, one tegula flange, one 33mm thick & 5 scraps (160g); B2, one 33mm thick, one combed box flue 24mm thick (113g); B3, one 32mm thick (308g); C1, 1 tegula & large scrap (130g); C3, one 32mm thick (96g); C4, one 25mm thick (27g).
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: BUC-F9E19C
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of Roman tegula
Created on: Friday 17th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-23FE47
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
11 Roman tile fragments, including 1 tegula, most of flange missing, skim of mortar adhering to part of underside, thickness 24mm. Weight 938g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2023
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Record ID: SUR-E5A56C
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn fragment of Roman tile, 70mm in length and 28.7mm thick, possibly originally from a large tegula (roof tile). The fabric is orange-brown and generally well sorted with a few large inclusions. There is a partial stamp on one side, with letters PR[...] in a rectangular escutcheon. This is likely an abbreviation of PR(OCURATORES) indicating that the tile was produced at a tileworks under the remit of the Imperial procurator, of a type associated with public buildings in the 1st to 2nd century AD. Cf. Betts (1995) Die Type 7. 
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: SF-029E61
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable Roman ceramic tile dating to circa AD 43-410.It has a mid-ornage hard sandy fabric with abundant sub-oval white inclusions <2mm. The flat base is of the extant piece is decorated with three longitudinal grooves at one edge which are met by eight oblique grooves. The front face has a raised outer border.  Length: 47.8mm; Width: 51.5mm; Thickness: 26.8mm; Weight: 107.6g.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Badley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-B3CBCD
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a ceramic Box Flue Tile of Roman date (AD 150-350). The fragment is composed of the main flat section of the tile. The fabric is red/orange in colour with darkened brown areas. The fabric is hard and fine frequent mica inclusions. The upper surface has an incised decorative pattern composed of 4 repeating rows of chevrons. McComish (2015:12) writes "Box flues (tubuli) are hollow rectangular or square cross-sectioned tiles, with sanded interior surfaces, and they have vents in two opposing sides, while the other two sides are usually keyed. The keying can be inc…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
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Record ID: NARC-B39292
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a ceramic Box Flue Tile of Roman date (AD 150-350). The fragment includes a minor amount of the flange section, and a portion of the main flat section of the tile. The fabric is red/orange in colour with darkened brown areas. The fabric is hard and fine with infrequent lithic inclusions and frequent light mica inclusions. The upper surface has an incised decorative pattern composed of 2 incised diagonal lines. McComish (2015:12) writes "Box flues (tubuli) are hollow rectangular or square cross-sectioned tiles, with sanded interior surfaces, and they have vents …
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
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