Monument record 0215303000 - PROSSER'S YARD, BRILL

Summary

Recollection of the discovery of a possible eighteenth century pottery kiln.

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

Description

Plan Form - OVAL
A KILN, RECALLED BY MR PROSSER AS HAVING BEEN FOUND IN HIS YARD C50 YEARS PREVIOUSLY (IE, TO 1974). HE DESCRIBED A HORSESHOE-SHAPED BRICK STRUCTURE ABOUT 3FT BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE. POSSIBLY BELLED OUT. STOKE AREA PAVED. SEVERAL BARROWLOADS OF POT REMOVED. SKETCH MAP OF LOCATION IN ARCHIVE FILE (B1).

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SBC10648 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator.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 65478 14058 (point)
Civil Parish BRILL, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: Disturbed find (EBC17178)

Record last edited

May 5 2009 6:29PM

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