3rd February 2013, 10:09 PM
P Prentice Wrote:i'm thinking - part(s) of one of those free standing ovens, brazier type as in one of the Cunliffe finds vols, or even an early form of the pizza /japatti discs from RB contextsWould those be expected to show more signs of heating? With ours, they only have scorching around particular patches on the edges. They also look like well-prepared ceramic pottery fabrics, rather than the rough kind of stuff that I've seen in kiln furniture or parts of ovens. I'll chase up the Cunliffe reference - I'm liking the idea of pizza stones onsite! RB would fit nicely with one site, but not really with the Bronze Age/Anglo-Saxon one (there are infrequent scraps of BBW & Samian in the topsoil, but that gets everywhere round here).
They're pretty robust though and I can see that they'd withstand that kind of use. One of the suggestions thus far was for roasting hazlenuts/acorns, which isn't a million miles off that type of cooking technique - using them as a heated surface. Problem is that the surfaces don't appear to have been heated - just the edges.