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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
This kiln was first discovered in 1931 when Messrs. Hughes erected the Bedford Garage on the site of the former Blue-Coat School (St. John's Hospital) in the upper part of the city. The architect, the late Mr. Harbottle Read, was interested in the structure and arranged that it should be preserved in a pit, 4 ft. 6 in. square, beneath the new concrete floor and covered by heavy iron covers. In this way it survived the bombing of Exeter in 1942 when the garage and much else in the area was destroyed. In 1955 when Messrs. Hughes's rebuilding was due to start, the city surveyor, Mr. J. Brierley, invited me to make a record of the kiln before it was finally removed.
page 45 note 1 Similar impressions of wattles were noticed in the late medieval kiln from Cheam, Surrey (Surrey Arch. Coll. xxxv, 79).
page 45 note 2 Proc. Devon Arch. Exp. Soc. ii (1935), 185. No further report appeared. Mr. L. Robins, F.S.A., tells me that he was in Exeter at the time of the excavation and that Mr. Read found several pots that were practically complete. Unfortunately these cannot be traced by the Royal Albert Museum, Exeter, to which Mr. H. Read bequeathed his collection.Google Scholar
page 46 note 1 Fox, Aileen, Roman Exeter, p. 53.Google Scholar More debris from the tilery was observed during Hughes's rebuilding in 1956.
page 47 note 1 Little, A. G. and Easterling, R. C., Franciscans and Dominicans of Exeter (Exeter Research Monographs, no. 3), fig. 1, p. 32, and Appendix, p. 65, referring to Misc. Deeds in Exeter City Library.Google Scholar
page 47 note 2 Op. cit., p. 34, St. John's Hospital cartulary, fo. 20. My colleague, Dr. Joyce Youings, very kindly re-examined the cartulary and the miscellaneous deeds relating to the hospital's property in the Exeter City Library, including the bailiff's accounts, but without results.
page 47 note 3 Morris, P. and Thorneycroft, W., P.D.A.E.S. (1932), pp. 191, 198.Google Scholar
page 47 note 4 Fox, A., Trans. Dev. Ass. lxxxiii, 172.Google Scholar
page 47 note 5 Reproduced in Trans. Dev. Ass. lxiv, pl. xx.
page 47 note 6 Parry, H. Lloyd, The Founding of Exeter School, p. 59.Google Scholar
page 47 note 7 Idem, plates facing pp. 78, 84.
page 50 note 1 Cf. Jope's, Mr. E. M. observations on the technique of medieval pottery-making at Carlisle, Trans. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq. Soc. lv (1956) 102.Google Scholar
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page 52 note 2 Trans. Devon Assoc. lxxxvi (1954), 228.Google Scholar
page 52 note 3 Trans. Devon Assoc. lxxxiii (1951), 172.Google Scholar
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