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These are the 2020 interim reports. Heneb’s analysis of the 2020 and 2025 excavations has since revised their interpretation, and the final report is being prepared. Read them as a record of the first season, not the current account.

Ceramic Building Material Report: the 2020 excavations. Dyfed Archaeological Trust, January 2021.

What this report tells us

  • “Ceramic building material” means fired-clay parts of buildings. Here it is all ridge tile: the curved tiles that cap the ridge of a roof.
  • The two trenches produced 115 pieces, weighing 5.3 kilograms.
  • The earliest are three medieval pieces of Llansteffan-type tile, from Trench 2. Other locally made glazed tiles are medieval and later.
  • Tiles from North Devon date from the late 1500s to the 1700s. A few red sandy tiles may be from Malvern in the 1400s or 1500s, but most of those are later.
  • So ridge-tiled roofs stood on or near this plot from the Middle Ages onward.

Page 1 is the summary; the following pages list the tiles layer by layer. This is the 2020 interim report.

The report

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