Monument record 0561201000 - 1 JOINERS CLOSE,LEY HILL

Summary

Tile kiln found on Joiners Close, Ley Hill resued as a pottery kiln in the fifteenth to sixteenth century

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  • POTTERY KILN (15th Century to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Plan Form - SUBRECTANGULAR
POTTERY KILN INSERTED INTO FURTHER END OF TILE KILN,UTILISING PRECEDING STRUCTURE.CENTRAL SPINE.1 OF 8 FLOOR SUPPORT ARCHES SURVIVED & 1.2M-LONG FLUE, COLLAPSED AT FIRING END.CHAMBER INCORPORATED SOME BRICK.FINAL FIRING DATE: CAL AD1460-1510 (ARCHAEOM AG.DATING)(BI1).CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF POT(BI2)

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC4733 Article in serial: Mike Farley & Jo Lawson. 1990. 'A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY POTTERY & TILE KILN AT LEYHILL, LATIMER', IN RECS OF BUCKS 32 PP35-62.
  • <2>SBC2652 Unpublished document: Stan Cauvain. 1991. STUDY OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CERAMIC MATERIALS FROM MEDIEVAL KILNS IN SOUTH BUCKS.

Location

Grid reference SP 98680 02262 (point)
Civil Parish LATIMER, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC10946)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2010 3:20PM

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