The tiles and fragments of tiles exhibit some examples different in form, as well as in material and in design, from any others which have come under my notice. One of these, on Fig. 121 (repeated so as to form the complete pattern in a lozenge), is of very light stone-coloured clay. The foliated pattern is in very high and bold relief, and the whole face of the tile is covered with a rich green glaze. It measures 10 inches on its angles, and 14 inches from point to point on its base, and it is 1¾ inches thick. Fig. 120 is of the same material and general character; the pattern in high relief, and the face covered with green glaze. It measures 8 inches by 6½, and is 1¾ inches thick. Another green glazed tile, also with the pattern in relief, is shown on Fig. 123. Its design, which is extremely elegant, consists of the crowned initial of the blessed Virgin, ([Illustration: M] ,) each limb of the letter M terminating in a crowned letter A and foliage. This, I take it, simply means “Ave, Maria.” [Illustration: Fig. 121.] [Illustration: Figs. 122 and 123.] [Illustration: VOL. II. PLATE II. MEDIÆVAL PAVING TILES MADE AT REPTON.] [Illustration: VOL. II. PLATE III. MEDIÆVAL PAVING TILES FOUND AT WIRKSWORTH.] Of the ordinary class of red and yellow tiles, a very large variety of patterns was found. These consisted of single, four, nine, and sixteen tile patterns of great beauty, and, in many cases, unusual intricacy; border tiles of strikingly beautiful design; heraldic tiles representing the armorial bearings of many local families of note, as well as those of the monarch, &c.; alphabet tiles, bearing the entire alphabet in Lombardic capitals; and grotesque, astronomical, and other devices. Some of these are represented on plates I. and II., and it is worthy of remark, as showing the extent to which this manufacture was carried by the monks at Repton, that tiles still existing in, or exhumed on the sites of, many of the old churches and religious houses of this and the adjoining counties, are identical with those discovered in this kiln, and are therefore proved to be of Repton make. [Illustration: Figs. 124 and 125.] Another description (to which the same remark will also apply) of tiles found in this kiln is very peculiar. On these, the pattern, in sharp and tolerably fine lines, is simply indented, or incised, into the soft clay, and not filled in with “slip.” These, which for convenience I will call “incised tiles,” are of dark blue or black colour. Some of these patterns will be found in Figs. 124 and 125. Another very singular unique tile of this class is given of its full size on Fig. 122. It bears a head within a wreath, and is covered with green glaze. Another curious and unique tile, in which the simple device of four saltires within a square has been literally _cut_ into the clay, not impressed, was also found. [Illustration: Figs. 126 to 128.]