Monument record 0215300000 - PROSSER'S YARD, BRILL

Summary

Two eighteenth century pottery kilns found during service trenching and subsequent excavation.

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Type and Period (1)

  • POTTERY KILN (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

2 KILNS WERE EXPOSED IN A SERVICE TRENCH. A SUBSEQUENT SHORT RESCUE EXCAVATION ESTABLISHED THAT THESE WERE OF EARLY C18 & THAT THEIR MAIN PRODUCT WAS RED EARTHENWARES. MR PROSSER RECALLED ANOTHER KILN, DISCOVERED IN HIS YARD ABOUT 60 YEARS PREVIOUSLY (TO 1974) (B4). SEE ALSO CASS 2623.02

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC12443 Verbal communication: Eric Prosser. 1974. PERS COMM; HIS SKETCH MAP OF LOCATION OF KILN, FILED.
  • <2>SBC8472 Verbal communication: MEF& P LOCK 1977(FEB) PERS COMM.
  • <3>SBC10648 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD (NOT RETAINED).
  • <4>SBC3074 Article in serial: W D Cocroft. 1985. 'TWO POST MEDIEVAL POTTERY KILNS FROM PROSSER'S YARD, BRILL', IN RECS OF BUCKS 27 PP72-93.

Location

Grid reference SP 65484 14038 (point)
Civil Parish BRILL, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: Salvage excavation (EBC10384)

Record last edited

May 5 2009 6:25PM

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