Tiles and a Roman Brooch!
Julie, our finds expert, hghlights some of the great artefacts uncovered so far: A quick update on finds. We’re continuing to find large amounts of building materials: roof slates, ceramic crested ridge tiles in white and red fabrics, mortar, white wall plaster, brick, apparently structural ironwork and floor tiles. Most of the floor tiles are medieval with two colour or line impressed designs but a few fragments are from large square tiles which are possibly late 15 th or early 16 th in date. These tiles have two types of design: one is line impressed with floral (daisy like) designs similar to those found at the 25 Bridge St excavations in 2001, the other has unglazed relief moulding and is similar to tiles found associated with the redesign of the west entrance of Chester Cathedral in the early Tudor period. Some of the medieval designs are types that have appeared in previous seasons a griffin and the remains of this stylised lion’s head (14 th centur...