Post-Roman and Medieval Drying Kilns

Contents

Introduction

Post-Roman and Medieval Drying Kilns
Identifying drying kilns in archaeology
Evidence of function
Other functions, and relationship of kiln type to function
Purposes of kiln drying
Evidence of fuel
Siting, and materials and methods of construction
Construction of superstructure and drying floors
Distribution, dating and origins
Historical context

Gazetteer of Drying Kilns
Introduction to the Gazetteer
Summary of types
Type I
Type II
Type III
Type IV
Type V
Type VI
Type VII
Insufficient Evidence for Type
Not Drying Kilns

Appendix: The Brewhouse and Bakehouse at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire

Bibliography

About the Author

Robert Rickett became interested in archaeology while he was at school in Stamford, Lincolnshire. After participating in several excavations, he went to University College, Cardiff, to study Archaeology and graduated in 1975. He worked on excavations in East Anglia before becoming a Research Officer for the Spong Hill Project (North Elmham, Norfolk), from 1977 to 1989. This included excavation supervision, archiving and publication work. Meanwhile his work in education with all age groups inspired him to study at U.E.A., Norwich, and from 1991 he taught in Primary Education.

Mark McKerracher is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil – studying Mid Saxon agriculture – in 2014. After working in museum archiving, software development and freelance archaeobotany, he is currently researching medieval farming practices as part of the ERC-funded Feeding Anglo- Saxon England project (FeedSax). His interests include archaeobotany, database development, agricultural production and Anglo-Saxon archaeology.

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