Immediately behind the (town) wall cut into a bank of sand and gravel, the greater part of a large bowl-shaped lime-kiln lay within the cutting. The walls of the kiln, which stood to a height of 1.25m, were carefully built in coursed rubble, and its floor was of flat bricks laid closely together. The date of the main group of sherds from the filling may be set in the period 1650-90 and thus the date at which the kiln was in use was about the middle of the 17th century. A second kiln was found lying 19m from the rear of the town wall. This second kiln, which measured 3.1m in diameter and 1.05m in depth, had been robbed of its stone lining and was identifiable as a lime-kiln mainly by the thick and even burning which had discoloured its sides to a depth of some 8 to 12 centimetres. The two kilns represent preparations for building operations in about the middle of the C17th, most probably in the aftermath of the Civil War. (1)
See L5669 for Med rampart.

<1> Thoroton Society, 1974, TTS, pp 27-35 (Published document). SNT387.

<2> Kinsley G, 1989, Newark's Archaeological Resource, App 1, pp 5-6 (Unpublished document). SNT40.