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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
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
Type II
Type III
Type IV
Type V
Type VI
Type VII
Insufficient Evidence for Type
Not Drying Kilns
Appendix: The Brewhouse and Bakehouse at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire
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