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Item: Vessel, kiln.stand
One of two Shape: flared cylinder glaze (traces), colour: green. - same as other is in National Museums of Scotland. When discovered the vessels were filled with 'ashes' and may belong to the class of vessels found in Christian Graves of the 12/16 C. Castle Hill, Rattray, Aberdeenshire 1829.
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Two kiln stands used to support pots when firing Castle Hill, Rattray (13 - 14 cent).
During the medieval period pottery techniques, including firing and glazing, improved greatly and the craft became industrialised. Large kilns were built in which batches of vessels could be fired. These are two of three kiln stands which were found in a kiln at Castle Hill, Rattray, Aberdeenshire, a medieval burgh. The kiln stands are wheel-thrown in a hard red sand-tempered fabric and are heavily rilled. Their profile is concave and the base wider than the rim. There are traces of green glaze on both, possibly dropped from the pots they supported, and there is blackening from being in the kiln. They date from the 14th century. These kiln stands would have been used, inverted, to hold pots upside down in the kiln during firing.
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