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53/106
Description
This arch-shaped horseshoe drainage tile was used in Nocton, Lincolnshire, where such tiles were known locally as 'mushroom tiles'. It was possibly made on the Nocton Estate also.
Physical description
1 tile: clay
Archival history
MERL 'Catalogue index' card – ‘… // DATE ACQUIRED: // GROUP: // NEGATIVE: // PERIOD: // PLACE OF ORIGIN: // NUMBER: // DESCRIPTION: …‘ Hollow drains originally involved the use of faggots, brushwood, straw or stones. However, wood decays and stones need replacement. Drainage tiles were the logical result of the attempt to find an improved method superior to brush and stone filled drains. They were first made at the end of the eighteenth century by hand but were not well constructed and broke under pressure. Gradually mass produced tiles, stronger and cheaper, came into use. Brush and stone filled drains were superceded by arch shaped drainage tiles and ultimately by round tiles placed edge to edge to form pipes. //
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