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A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MEDIEVAL TILES FROM BORDESLEY ABBEY, NEAR REDDITCH (HEREFORD AND WORCESTER)
Author(s) -
STOPFORD J.,
HUGHES M.J.,
LEESE M.N.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00024.x
Subject(s) - archaeology , work (physics) , history , geology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Summary. Archaeological work, based on the external characteristics of decorated floor tiles from the Cistercian monastery of Bordesley, has identified and characterised a series of industries supplying that site from the earlier 13th century through to dissolution in 1538. In this paper we extend these interpretations by means of neutron activation analysis (NAA) data on the body compositions of the tiles, and compare these results with manually recorded descriptions.