MONTREUIL-SUR-MER, FRANCE—A pottery workshop has been uncovered near the coast of northern France, according to a Miami Herald report. Researchers from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) found a collection of pots and two kilns at the site. The main kiln, thought to have been in use from the late sixteenth century into the early seventeenth century, was constructed of bricks in an almond shape. Several pots in addition to pottery waste were found inside it. An older, medieval kiln showed no signs of heat damage and was likely never used to fire pottery. Rather, it had been used as a dump for pottery waste. Walls around the site suggest the kilns were enclosed in a workshop. Other workshops were eventually built over the site in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To read about pottery recovered from the ancient Roman city of Vienna in what is now southeastern France, go to "A Day by the Rhone."
