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Horningsea village sign (RGL2024)Horningsea Kilns
History of the Horningsea Kilns
Scheduled monument
In 2024 the BBC article ‘Beer and salt among Roman ‘mega-industries’ commented:
Goods like olive oil and wine were imported to Britain using large ceramic jars known as amphora, but Romano-Britons “produced their own big jars which could rival this pottery”, said Mr Biddulph.
A 2021 excavation at Horningsea, next to the River Cam in Cambridgeshire, revealed it was a major pottery production area.
Mr Biddulph said: “Its most distinctive aspect was the production of very large jars.
“These may have been a specialist line, but it is unclear whether they were associated with a specific commodity, as transport containers, perhaps for flour, or whether they were simply a particularly successful form of all-purpose storage jar.”
What he does believe is the pottery was producing the jars were most likely to have been used in the vicinity, unlike the imported amphora.
https://romanpotterystudy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/JRPS-4-Booth-Evans-33-43.pdf
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