Romano-British Pottery Kilns

Malvern Link, Howsell, Worcestershire

NGRef: SO7748/SO7849 OSMap: LR150 Type: Pottery Kilns
Roads
Possible Road: NE (5½) to VERTIS (Worcester, Worcestershire) Possible Road: SW (10½) to Stretton Grandison (Herefordshire)

SO779493 - At Grit Farm a ditch filled with Roman "wasters", burnt clay and charcoal was discovered during tree-felling in 1969.

SO777494 - 400m WNW of Grit Farm a waster heap discovered in a water-main trench yielded vessels of a type previously unknown to have been produced here.

SO789497 - At Great Buckmans Farm pits and ditches containing similar material but different forms were found, all dated to the second century.

SO7551 - There is a Roman tile kiln at Upper Sandlin a couple of miles to the north of the Malvern Hills.

See: Britannia ii (1971) p.262:
W.M.A.N.S. 1969 p.28, 1970 p.39;
Trans. Worcs. Arch. Soc. 3.i (1965-7) pp.15-28.

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