Description (Physical description)
Oven. Stamps on all sides except the bottom. The brick appears to be Tudor type
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Wooden display board with handwritten label: 'Cloam Oven (?) 16th century. Found built into the wall of No. 1 Deacon's Lane, Ely. c.&d C.F.Howes.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Analysis)
B. Wailes research: '?Cloam oven: heated by filling the inside with burning furze etc.; this was then removed and bread inserted. Such ovens were used in Cornwall until the 1930's. Mr. Lake, of Lake's Potteries, Truro, might have further information. ?Introduced from France in the 14th to 15th centuries.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Found: No. 1 Deacons Lane (?late 17th century or ?18th century house): built into an old house wall (?16 century)
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected and donated by C. F. Howes, per S. R. Hopkin
Event Date 1959
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Stamped brick cloam oven.'
Event Date 1959
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
Diagram of object and the stamps on reverse of catalogue card.
Event Date 1959
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Pottery cloam oven. Thick walls, brown fabric; oxidised to a deep red/orange at the front; grey underside. Stamped with eight-pointed star on all sides except bottom, and some circular impressions at the front. The roof is domed and has a straight extended back with two circular holes; scratches and deep fingernail marks across the top. The front has a large central circular hole opening into the oven; the inside of the oven has a fabric of grey and red, and uneven base.
Event Date 9/1/2024
Author: Clare McKenna