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Roman roof tile
Findspot:
Wendlebury, Oxfordshire
Period:
Date:
Roman, 1st - 2nd century AD
Material:
Ceramic/Pottery
About 2,000 years ago, a Roman toddler stepped on a still-drying roof tile, leaving behind a chubby footprint. Roof tiles were produced in batches, laid out to dry and then fired. It is possible to imagine a toddler running along a row of drying tiles quite delighted with the trail of footprints they had left behind. Did children help make the tiles – perhaps to the regret of the adults?
Collection information
Collection:
On loan by the kind permission of Wendlebury Gate Stables, Network Rail and Chiltern Railways
Accession No:
OXCMS:2014.90
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Reproduced by the kind permission of Oxford Archaeology