Abstract
PREVIOUS work on medieval tile kilns firing square or rectangular floor tiles has used diagrammatic packing plans to reconstruct practice and to estimate kiln capacities. Simple practical experiment shows that these systems are unstable and impractical. A stable and reliable packing plan has been devised which takes into account many of the packing scars and damage found on the tiles in the English Heritage collection at Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. Whilst it is not suggested that such a plan was universally used it does accord with data from a range of other sources.
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