Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

Access rights only. This is a handout or public domain image supplied by a third party. Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ grants access to the digital file but provides no warranties regarding copyright or moral rights. Alteration, modification, or cropping is prohibited without prior approval. All commercial uses require advance authorization from the content provider.

This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage.

. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. 58 ON THE OLDER FORMS OF In an interesting work by Thomas Wright on the Homes of Other Days, many reproductions of old drawings of Saxon and Norman times are given, from which some hints of the kinds of roofing tiles in use may be found. From the Harleian MS. dating from the ninth century, a picture is given of an Anglo-Saxon house ; in this picture a variety of roofing-tiles are shown, the most conspicuous of which is the normal tile. The flat Roman tile is also given, and another form resembling round-ended flat tiles, though these may be wooden shingles. Flat Roman tiles again. Fig. 78. appear in another drawing of the tenth century, and in another picture of this epoch the flat tile, with round end, and the normal tile are represented. A picture of a town of the tenth century shows only the normal tile. In an Anglo-Saxon MS. of the Psalms, the normal tile is in- dicated, and what appears to be an imbricated ridge of tiles. In a roof shown in the Bayeux tapestry, the normal tile is seen. In an early Saxon illumination, a large normal tile is shown. In early Norman times, the normal tile is de-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Essex Institute. 1n. Salem, Mass. , Essex Institute