This paper has drawn attention to the simultaneous use in both the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries of a kiln to burn lime, fire bricks, and fire tiles. If small quantities of each commodity were required it made economic sense for the kiln burner to combine these three together. While there is almost two hundred years between the kiln at Loseley Hall and the earlier record of those in Buckinghamshire, it can be considered that the practice of firing the kiln to provide different commodities was long-standing. Afterall, one cannot build a wall with mortar and lime mortar was used during the period in question and on into the nineteenth century. One would like to know if the practice of using a kiln for making lime and firing bricks at the same time was found elsewhere and at what dates. Buckinghamshire and Surrey share a common county boundary in the River Thames.
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