Thief returns 800-year-old medieval tiles he stole from priory 59 years ago
Ed Griffiths
A retired chartered surveyor has returned three medieval floor tiles to Wenlock Priory nearly six decades after stealing them as a child during a family outing. Simon White was just nine years old when he took the ornate clay artefacts from the Shropshire site in July 1967, with his father acting as lookout and encouraging the theft. The 68-year-old rediscovered the tiles months ago whilst searching through his Hampshire loft, finding them inside a worn toffee tin where they had remained hidden