Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Canmore – Newstead Roman Fort … This season’s work has given no confirmation at all to Richmond’s hypothesis that this part of the Fort housed a cavalry unit in the early Antonine period. The fieldwork and excavation have however revealed substantial 2nd-century industrial activities in the SW quarter of the Fort, including probable tile/brick making…

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. It was found among a pile of reclaimed Allan and Mann bricks. Unidentified maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but…. Michael Fallone states that this brick came from a flat arch window design. The keystone (middle) would be marked one and each brick to the left…

The Romans further distinguished those which had been dried by the sun and air and those bricks which were burnt in a kiln. Preferring to make their bricks in the spring, the Romans held on to their bricks for 2 years before they were used or sold. They only used clay which was whitish or…