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Derby Racecourse Kiln Excavations 1972–3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

M. Brassington
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Summary

The examination of the Romano-British kilns situated on the Derby Racecourse Playing Fields (SK36133755) was continued during 1972/3 and a total of six kilns, in two groups, was excavated. The first group comprised two kilns of likely early second-century date which shared a common stokehole; this stokehole and one of the kilns had been greatly disturbed by unauthorised digging. The remaining kiln was found to have been constructed partly over a filled-in well which yielded pottery pre-dating the kiln. The second group consisted of four kilns situated close to a Roman road. Two kilns were of Antonine date and shared a common stokehole; adjacent to this stokehole and partly cut by it lay a small kiln, the oven of which was only 0·46 m. in diameter. A fourth kiln, the furnace of which alone survived, was of a first-century type; what remained had also been partly destroyed when one of the Antonine kilns was constructed. The principal products of the kilns consisted of bowls, jars and dishes; oxidized BBI sherds were found in the furnace chamber of the first-century kiln.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 8 - 47
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1980

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NOTES

1 Brassington, M., Antiq. J. li (1971), 36–69CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Woods, P. J., Britannia, v (1974), 262–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Research Group Newsletter, no. 23 (1974).

6 Ibid., no. 16 (1969); also Trent Valley Archaeological Research Committee, report no. 7 (1973).

7 Stanfield, J. A. and Simpson, Grace Central Gaulish Potters (London, 1958), p. 264Google Scholar.

8 M. Brassington, op. cit. in n. 1.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid., 53.

11 Ibid.

12 Brassington, M., D.A.J. lxxxix (1969), 107Google Scholar.

13 M. Brassington, op. cit. in n. 1, and fig. 8, 120.

14 M. Brassington, op. cit. in n. 12, 119.

15 Derbyshire Archaeological Society, op. cit. in n. 5.

16 Kay, S., D.A.J. lxxxii (1962), 36Google Scholar.