Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for Z 16304: 'Medieval floor tile. Wessex type.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old label adhered to front of objects reads: 'CAS. Found at Barton Pres. by Rev. J. Harding [name unclear] 182 [unclear]'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (References)
(1849). 'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 69-82. Illustrated on p. 82.
Event Date 1849
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Analysis)
The publication provides the following information about the object: 'Mr. A. W. Franks exhibited a drawing of a decorative tile, found in the parish of Barton, near Cambridge, and now deposited in the museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Few remains of this kind are to be found in Cambridgeshire. The only complete pavements are at Ely. One or two patterns are in Little Shelford Church and in King's College Chapel, on the latter the patterns are impressed. A castle appears on a tile at Great Bedwyn, in Wiltshire, which greatly resembles the present example. This has been supposed to allude to Eleanor of Castile. Birds are not uncommon on tiles, though more generally placed on boughs of foliage curling out from a central stem.'
Event Date 1849
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Tile with white inlay design showing ?a church.
Event Date 10/8/2001
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Square shaped encaustic floor tile of red-orange fabric, with details in white. Design, partially worn away, consists of a castle with a large central tower and two shorter towers either side, each with an outward facing bird perched on top. Design possibly associated with Eleanor of Castile. Traces of yellow glaze on sides. Four depressions on reverse.
Event Date 16/11/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Other)
See 1951.323.
Event Date 17/11/2023
Author: Esther Laver