Tile with mouse nibble

Ceramic

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Trimontium Museum

Name/Title

Tile with mouse nibble

Entry/Object ID

TT0034

Description

Clay tile with hole where seed of grain was included and a mouse has nibbled it out

Use

This tile would have been used as building material.

Collection

Trimontium Trust

Category

CBM
Infrastructure

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Romano British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tile

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Surface Elements

Nomenclature Class

Building Components

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

clay tile

Material

Ceramic

Color

Orange

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Exhibition

Permanent Exhibition

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Caption

Label

The hole in this tile shows where a mouse has been nibbling. A seed of grain must have blown onto the wet clay as the tile was drying out in the sun.