Monument record 6398/1/1 - Pottery Kiln, Faxton

The remains of a 19th-century pottery kiln were still visible in the 1920s. It was destroyed in the 1930s and the rubble used for farm-roads. Excavation in the 1980s found that it was of a coal-fired, multi-flue updraught design known as a bottle-kiln or -oven.

{1}Faxton had a single kiln;

{2} The kiln wall was 0.6m thick and constructed of three rows of well fired buff orange bricks, two rows were laid side by side and the outer row end to end. The wall was broken at 6 opposed points by a series of fire holes, 0.17m wide, which led into brick lined flue channels. A section across the EW flue showed it was 0.3m deep. Only one sherd of pottery (Willow pattern) was found in the kiln. The kiln type is a coal fired multi flue updraught design.
The scatter of off-white biscuit-fire pottery suggests it was made there at some point, although it appears to have been unsuccessful. The kiln's main function appears to have been firing bricks, tiles and pipes.

<1> STARMER G., List of Industrial Sites in Northamptonshire (Various, Including N.R.I.M.), (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1444.

<2> BELLAMY B., 1985, A Nineteenth Century Bottle Kiln at Faxton, p141-3 (checked) (Article). SNN104556.

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Nov 13 2020 9:07AM