BC 95 - BURYTHORPE CHURCH, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Ceramic Building Materials
All the
Ceramic Building Materials (CBM) viewed was Roman in date. The forms present consist of box flue,
brick, tegula, a possible tessera, and a possible imbrex. The box flue fragments do not indicate any
complete measurements (except for thickness) or the keying type of the product,
which may have given a clue to the date.
The tegula (roof tile) have flanges which are a typical size, and one has
an example of an upper cutaway to facilitate fitting into the next tile on the
roof. The brick is very fragmentary,
and could be small fragments of roofing tile.
Three
fragments (from 107, 111 and 140) have
mortar along broken edges which may indicate re-use. There are two, possibly three, fabrics which may signify several
different kiln sources for the origin of the CBM.
Taken as a group, the
material seems to indicate that there is
a Roman
building with a hypocaust in the area.
There are three
examples of stone. One is a limestone
block, from 3. There is a stone block
from 107 which is burnt. The last,
Small Find /43\ from 188, may be worked, or could be a natural formation. It
appears to have an oolitic limestone band. These three samples would benefit
from examination by a geologist.
3 Limestone block ?
102 ?Daub, Box flue, Brick Roman
103 ?Tessera, Tegula, Brick Roman
106 Tegula, Brick, ?Box flue Roman
107 Stone block, Brick Roman
111 Tegula, Brick Roman
127 Box flue, ?Imbrex Roman
128 Brick Roman
129 Box flue, Brick, Pottery Roman
140 Brick Roman
151 Pottery Roman
154 Brick Roman
188 /43\ ?Worked stone ?Roman