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Base of kiln showing specimen fireplace
ED 8001
Description Base of kiln showing specimen fireplace
Date 1972
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number ED 8001
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 356488
Scope and Content Furnace and ash-pit of 1906 kiln at Thistle Pottery (also known as Portobello or Waverley Pottery), Portobello, City of Edinburgh Thistle Pottery was founded around 1770 and owned by the Buchan family from 1867. In 1879 it was rebuilt and extended onto the site of an earlier pottery's harbour. In 1972, just before closure, it was making stoneware from Devon and Cornwall clay. This is one of several furnace-holes and ash-pits belonging to the 1906 kiln. Coal was stoked into the furnace hole and the ashes fell down into the ash-pit. Although Scottish potteries made some use of local clay, their sites were usually chosen for their nearness to a good supply of coal. It took about 15 tons of coal to fire one ton of pottery. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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