Roman Ceramic Kilns

These two first-century ceramic kilns of different types could be related to the salting factory. Only their lower part has come down to us, where the boiler used to be. The kilns were used to make amphorae for the salted fish to be shipped across the Empire.

Their location and type give valuable information on the Roman civilisation. On the one hand, they tell us something about an ‘industrial area’ and the nerve centre in Caviclum, where now we can find two blocks of the Centro Internacional Bau Hoffman development. Although both kilns are from the same period, their different types reveal different ways of making pottery. The older, circular kiln used a staged system, whereas the other, with a smaller volume but higher, used a system of side galleries to store larger numbers of pieces.