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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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nd wereprobably stock tiles from one of the local kilns. Severalother tiles of well-known designs were also found at thesame time. In October of the same year considerable digging wasnecessary at the back of the Gas Companys Offices inPipe Lane, when a skull and other human remains werediscovered. These were doubtless further remains fromthe burial ground of the Carmelites, just below ColstonHall, which was built upon the site of the Great House,and in earlier times of the domestic, building of that order :whence a number of mediaeval English Crania wereunearthed in 1904, upon which Dr. Beddoe contributeda paper at one of our evening meetings.3 Several tileswere also found at that time. On the present occasion (1913) the skull unfortunatelycollapsed before any examination could be made ; but by afortunate coincidence during the work of excavating, 1 Annals, XV11 Ith century, p. 495. 2 Taylors Book about Bristol, 1872, p. 376. 3 See Trans. B. & G. Arch. Society, vol. xxix., p. 136.
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BRISTOL ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES. 137 early in 1914, a few Mediaeval Tiles of extraordinaryinterest were unearthed. It is to be regretted that theywere got out during the absence of the Architect and ofthe Clerk of Works, as their exact position was not noted,but from information obtained from the workmen whodiscovered Jthc tiles, and who brought them away, itappears they had been built against a wall, which probablysaved them, and which had to be demolished quicklyin the course of clearing the site, without anyone in-terested being called in to examine the discovery. It is possible that in the work of rapid demolitionother of these mediaeval relics may have been destroyed,though enquiries immediately afterwards brought anegative reply. Tiles from Carmelite Church. The four principal tiles saved are equestrian in design,oblong in shape, and in a remarkably good state of preser-vation, though they naturally show signs of wear (see plate XVI). They are of redware with an inlaid designunder

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