Casgliadau Arlein

Square earthenware tile, dust pressed, pattern of raised horizontal bars and oval on reverse, upper side painted in enamels with three men by the hollow fire 'a kind of hearth with blast used for reheating the stamps produced in the South Welsh process of firing, or the bars of blister steel in the manufacture of shear-steel' Raymond 'Mining Glossary' quoted in the OED. A fourth in the middle fground, flattening metal under the hammer, brick arches behind to right, chimneys to left.