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Room 4 was virtually the same as in the previous period except of course
that its SE wall, containing the stoke-hole, had been completely rebuilt, and the floors of
both rooms had been raised by c. 0.80 m. The furnaces were constructed on brick bases
sunk in the new floor level; they were circular (diam. 0.93-0.98 m.) and were built of
bricks set in and plastered with clay; the bricks may have been mud bricks only, but they
were now thoroughly burned. The floor of the furnace was also of bricks and clay and rose
in the centre; the passage from the stoke-hole was not flush with the furnace floor but raised
some 0.20 m. above it; the floors had been re-made several times and had risen by as much
as 0.30 m., below each floor being the ashes of former burnings; the walls had been
destroyed, but those of the furnace in Room 4 were still standing to 0.50 m.; the floor of
the central furnace was thickly covered with a fine white ash.2
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