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A Pair of Fourth-century Romano-British Pottery Kilns near Crambeck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Extract

Ten years ago two pairs of Romano-British kilns for the manufacture of pottery were discovered by some boys from Bootham School, York, on the slope of the hill from Whitwell to the Crambeck, about thirteen miles north-east of York and five miles from the fortress of Malton. These were excavated by boys from Bootham School under the writer's supervision, and details of their structure and of the pottery made in them have been published. Earlier finds of kilns in the same neighbourhood were then recorded, and these, together with the amount of pottery recovered, made it clear that pottery manufacture had been very extensive in the district. Since that report was published, the importance of Crambeck wares and their wide distribution in the northern military area in the fourth century have been widely recognized. The discovery of another pair of kilns in 1936, which throw more light on kiln-structure than did those of the earlier find, provides, in the light of subsequent investigations, an opportunity for a fuller discussion of the date of their activity than was at that time possible.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1937

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References

Crambeck = Numbers refer to the pottery illustrated from the kilns discovered in 1927 in The Roman Pottery at Crambeck, Castle Howard.Google Scholar
Signal Stations = Hull's types from ‘The Pottery from the Roman Signal Stations on the Yorkshire Coast’ (Arch. Journal, lxxxix).Google Scholar
Malton = The Defences of the Roman Fort at Mallon.Google Scholar
Langton = The Roman Villa at Langton, near Malton.Google Scholar
Birdoswald = ‘Excavations on Hadrian's Wall, in the Birdoswald-Pike Hill Sector, 1929’, (C. and W. A. and A. Trans, xxx, N.S.).Google Scholar
References in italics refer to unstratified deposits.Google Scholar