Small handmade clinker brick of red/orange clay, with roughly rectangular handmade frog. Mortar - attached to flat face - contains pieces of shell and charcoal.
Crumbling handmade brick of pale orange-brown coloured clay, with cinders and extensive fire-cracking. Two thumbprints in opposite corners of upper face.
4 Danish trenails. Asferg, Aarhus, Jutland Frame and Batten Pegs.
This collection includes an ‘oak nail’, carefully pared in order to be driven via a pilot hole through newly cut pine saplings used as thatching poles.
Ewbank pressed nails including 13 nails from original patent and head, 1834; 5 nails from the 'starhead' trademark, 1869; and 7 nails from the Heward patent, diagonal haunch, 1878
Glazed tile with terracotta body, rectangular form, upper surface decorated in enamel colours with the words "LAGAR DE/LOS ANGELES" in blue on a white ground, within a rectangular cartouche in colours of yellow, blue and green.
Wooden overshoe; wooden sole in two parts with sole and toe section fastened together with section of leather which has a buckle. A second piece of leather is fixed with metal screws to the edge of the heel; the top edge of the leather has a buckle…