Excavated by Manuel Sotomayor Muro
Beiro 1 Kiln during its excavation (Photography: Manuel Sotomayor)
Model made by the students of the Archeology Degree of the UGR and Alexis Maldonado Ruiz
A kiln with a quadrangular ground plan in which the twin arches supported the grid. At the time of its excavation, the first two arches that separated the kiln from the praefurnium were still preserved. According to Sotomayor, the left side of the structure would have been put out of use in antiquity and blocked up with tegulae and rubble. The remains of the vault that covered the praefurnium were also documented.
In terms of its building materials, the firing chamber had a hard earth and clay floor, while the arches were built with adobe. The kiln was bordered on the outside by walls made of bricks, tegulae and slag fragments and lined on the inside by adobe bricks.
From its size, Sotomayor associates this kiln with the production of laterite material.
Bibliography
SOTOMAYOR MURO, M. (1966a): “Alfar romano en Granada”, en IX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología (Valladolid, 1965), pp. 367-372.
SOTOMAYOR MURO, M. (1966b): “Excavaciones en la Huerta de la Facultad de Teología de Granada. Informa sucinto del resultado de los trabajos del 31 de agosto al 12 de septiembre”, en Noticiario Arqueológico Hispánico, VIII y IX, cuadernos nº 1-3, (1964-65), pp. 193-199.
SOTOMAYOR MURO, M. (1966c): “Excavaciones en la Huerta de la Facultad de Teología de Granada. Informe sucinto del resultado de los trabajos del 19 de mayo al 4 de junio de 1965”, en Noticiario Arqueológico Hispánico VIII y IX, cuadernos nº 1-3 (1964-65), pp. 200-202.
SOTOMAYOR MURO, M. (1970): “Siete hornos de cerámica romana en Granada con producción de sigillata”, en XI Congreso Nacional de Arqueología (Mérida, 1968), pp. 713-728.
