YORYM 1995.55 – TADCASTER ROAD, YORK

 

Ceramic Building Materials

 

S Garside-Neville

 

Roman Material

The Roman material from this site is much abraded.   Roofing material is present in the normal Roman forms of tegula and imbrex.  However, two fragments from 8005 are very thick, indicating a large product.  The fabric appears to be Roman.   These are tentatively identified as imbrex, but may be parts of some sort of piping.  There is a possible fragment of Box flue from 7005 which appears to have finger smoothing, and is of the correct thickness and shows the type of moulding marks associated with flue tile.

 

Medieval Material

The measurements of the brick from context 7005 indicate a probable medieval date.  The fragment of brick from 8003 appears to have a medieval fabric.

 

 

Context                       Form                                                               Date

4003                            Imbrex                                                             Roman

7005                            ?Box flue, Brick                                                14th-15th

8003                            Brick                                                                14th-15th

8005                            Tegula, ?Imbrex                                                Roman

 

S Garside-Neville

Brick and Tile Services

July 1995