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Room 3 (itself probably formed out of two old rooms). The NW and SW walls of this room were also rebuilt with mud brick on the old burnt-brick foundations, but in them were contrived three stoke-holes with their passage-sides of burnt brick (P1. 50b); these stoke-holes were roofed with true arches in mud brick (thirteen bricks to a span of 0.70 m. or, in the case of that in the NW wall, 0.78 m.) with vertical sides 0.27 m. high and a height from base to soffit of 0.50 m. In each case, after a period of use, the base had been raised by a layer of broken burnt brick and fire-clay laid over the old ashes, probably at a time when the kilns were repaired. In Room 3, roughly corresponding to the central stoke-hole, was a 1.00 m. square basin let into the floor, paved with bricks and bordered with bricks set on edge (bricks 0.27 m. X 0.18 m. X 0.07 m.); in and by this was a quantity of lime (?). Room 3 had served as a stoke-room for the furnaces, which were in Rooms 4 and 1 (P1. 50a).2
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