Site of Roman Pottery Kilns at Grange Road

Description of this historic site

Quarrying work in the late 19th century uncovered Roman pottery kilns. Their exact location is now not known.

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Notes about this historic site

Site of Roman pottery kilns.
1 In the process of removing soil for quarrying various kilns have been discovered. In about 1891 in Mr Tippet’s quarry pottery was found – chiefly fragments of mortaria. Several stamps were found. In about 1894 a second kiln was found in a quarry owned by Mr C Abell. This produced mortaria and a vase. In 1897 further finds were made close to the second kiln, consisting of two kilns. In the neighbourhood of these two kilns have been found several ‘barrows’ full of fragments of pottery. This pottery included white, grey and red wares.
2 Kilns found 1891-7 at the Caldecote quarries.
3 OS Card.
4 Haverfield (reference 2) is wrong to locate these kilns at the Caldecote quarries. The exact location of the four pottery kilns excavated in the 1890s is not known. Tippet was manager for the Hartshill Quarry Company, whose quarry, now infilled and built on, was centred at SP32659495. It is not known where within this quarry the kiln was found. Abell’s quarries lay SE, centering on SP32959455.