Post-Roman and Medieval Drying Kilns : Foundations of Archaeological Research.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rickett, Robert.

Contributor:

McKerracher, Mark.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.) ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Post-Roman and Medieval Drying Kilns

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021.

Summary:

Drying kilns, corn-dryers and malting ovens are increasingly familiar features in post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval archaeology. Their forms, functions and distributions offer critical insights into agricultural, technological, economic and dietary history across the British Isles. Despite the significance and growing corpus of these structures, exceptionally few works of synthesis have been published. Yet such a foundational study was produced by Robert Rickett as early as 1975: an undergraduate dissertation which, for the first time, assembled a gazetteer of drying kilns from across the British Isles, critically examined this archaeological evidence in the light of documentary research, and established a typology and uniform terminology for drying kiln studies. This pioneering and oft-cited dissertation is here published for the first time, providing a foundation for the future study of drying kilns in Britain, Ireland and beyond. A new introduction and notes by Mark McKerracher set the original work within the context of drying kiln research since 1975.

Contents:

Cover

About Access Archaeology

Copyright Information

Title Page

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

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

K1: Stamford kiln 1 (Lincolnshire, England)

K2: Stamford kiln 2 (Lincolnshire, England)

K3: Stamford kiln 3 (Lincolnshire, England)

K4: Great Casterton (Rutland, England)

K5: Montgomery Castle (Powys, Wales)

K6: Stamford kiln 4 (Lincolnshire, England)

Type II

K7: Barrow (Rutland, England)

K8: Grafton Regis (Northamptonshire, England)

K9: Brixworth (Northamptonshire, England)

K10: Faxton (Northamptonshire, England)

Type III

K11: Nottingham Caves (Nottinghamshire, England)

K12: Rue Farm (Dumfries, Scotland)

K13: Sandal Castle (West Yorkshire, England)

K14: Doncaster (South Yorkshire, England)

K15: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England)

K16: Stanhope (Co. Durham, England)

Type IV

K17: Alcester (Warwickshire, England)

K18: Houndtor (Devon, England)

K19: South Witham (Lincolnshire, England)

K20: Ballymacash (Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland)

K21: Beere (Devon, England)

K22: Glenvoidean (Bute, Scotland)

K23: Rathbeg (Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland)

K24: Sandal Castle (West Yorkshire, England)

K25: St Blane's (Bute, Scotland)

K26: Buckden (Cambridgeshire, England)

K27: Glen Parva (Leicestershire, England)

Type V

K28: Jarlshof (Shetland, Scotland).

K29: Kirkstall Abbey (West Yorkshire, England)

K30: Stretham (West Sussex, England)

Type VI

K31: Ballycatteen (Co. Cork, Ireland)

Type VII

K32: Doarlish Cashen (Isle of Man)

K33: Highlight (Glamorgan, Wales)

K34: Hullasey (Gloucestershire, England)

K35: Letterkeen (Co. Mayo, Ireland)

K36: Lundy Island (Devon, England)

K37: Uisneach (Co. Westmeath, Ireland)

K38: Underhoull (Shetland, Scotland)

K39: Altmush (Co. Meath, Ireland)

K40: Garranes (Co. Cork, Ireland)

K41: Michelham Priory (East Sussex, England)

K42: Tintagel (Cornwall, England)

K43: Merthyr Dyfan (Glamorgan, Wales)

Insufficient Evidence for Type

K44: Alcester (Warwickshire, England)

K45: Block Eary (Isle of Man)

K46: Deddington Castle (Oxfordshire, England)

K47: Inishkea North (Co. Mayo, Ireland)

K48: Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England)

K49: Northampton (Northamptonshire, England)

K50: Rhuddlan (Denbighshire, Wales)

K51: Scole (Norfolk, England)

K52: Spaunton New Inn (North Yorkshire, England)

K53: Sutton (Shropshire, England)

K54: Thetford (Norfolk, England)

K55: Wallingford Castle (Oxfordshire, England)

Not Drying Kilns

K56: Fountains Abbey (North Yorkshire, England)

K57: Stamford (Lincolnshire, England)

K58: Winchester (Hampshire, England)

Appendix: The Brewhouse and Bakehouse at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire

Bibliography.

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ISBN:

1-80327-071-3

OCLC:

1301053571