Context (Related Documents)
The Foster Bequest catalogue describes these tiles as: 'the covering tiles from a tomb' (no. 17, p. 33).
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Five large tegulae (two broken, but complete). One of the unbroken tiles, of a different fabric from the others has a prominent tiler' s mark (made with the fingers on the wet clay)
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Five covering tiles from a tomb.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Found: From the Tombs at Oltrona; Collected in 1878
Event Date 1878
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A large tegulae, or covering tile, from a tomb. It is of a red fabric, different to the others of this idno. It has a prominent makers mark, a loop, made by three fingers in the wet clay.
Event Date 20/9/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Tassinari, Gabriella. (2023). I sepolcreti dimenticati: le necropoli romane di Malgesso e di Oltrona al Lago (Varese), Gorle: Bergamo. Fig. 84, p. 159.
Event Date 2023
Author: Lily Stancliffe