Tyler Hill Tile and Pottery Industry.

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• Tyler Hill Tile and Pottery Industry.
• Including sites on the new Canterbury by-pass and
  at Tyler Hill.
• Including pottery finds, and remains of kilns.
• Followed by suggested primary documentation.
• By Morag Cooper and Nikki Gregory.

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Medieval Jug. A selection of pottery.
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• Basic map of finds from site 1.

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Finds pottery.

• Romano-British course sandy ware. Exposed to the
  sand grains and unlikely to have bonded well and
  some meals must have been rather gristy.
• Post-fired- grey
• Oxidised Orange/ red
• Necked jars 80 of finds.
• Decorated rims and necks.

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• Canterbury By-pass 1979 Iron Age pottery.

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• Map of where some of the pottery and kilns were
  excavated

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Tyler Hill pottery

• Jugs, cooking pots, bowls and pipkins
• Approx. 300 sherds
• 2 main fabric types coarse sandy ware and
  smoother finely sanded ware
• Jug shape was typically tall and baluster-
  shaped, pear-shaped or squat and globular and
  almost always with deeply thumbed and frilled
  bases.
• Decoration -combe and broad strap handles with
  deep stabbing and thumbed edges.
• White clay (slip)- over-paint, which was then
  green glazed, or more usually as applied or
  smeared- on strips arranged in simple geometric
  patterns

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• Sketched reconstructions of Medieval pottery
  finds from Tyler Hill, Canterbury.

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• Tyler Hill Ware Jugs. C. 1275-1350
• These pots can be found at the Canterbury
  Heritage museum.

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Further Investigations.

• Domesday Book 1086
• Kent Feet of Fines in 1215 which recorded the
  names of Edulf, Godwin and Wimund le Poter (the
  Potter).
• Christchurch priory was said to have had its own
  tylehost (tile workshop or kiln) at Hackington
  in 1363
• Churchwardens accounts for 1545
• Canterbury Cathedral Archives, ref CCA-CC-R/F/2,
  is the Roll of Freemen for 1302-1303 records a
  John Brenecour, tiler
• Robert de Tylesheggh, John Tegheler, Robert
  Tegheler, Stephen Tegheler.
• 1363 a lease of a site at Tyler Hill was leased
  to a Christian Belsire, Harleian Manu