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Pit Kiln

  1990-2007  

Pit Firing  is one of the most primitive methods of creating pottery. 

 The nature of the process is simplicity at its best.

   Most pit kilns are nothing more than holes in the ground in which a bonfire is created.

 

 This Pit Kiln
is made of brick
 and built s above ground.
 It was designed for convenience of loading and and for safety when firing.


 
This kiln was dismantled in March 2007 to make room for a new Storage Building at the pottery. A new Pit kiln will be build next a year.

Pit Kiln

Burnished Pots are laid in sawdust Copper Sulfate is added Wood is gently placed on the pots Steel rebar supports the metal cover

Pit Kiln

Metal Roofing covers the pit and contains the flames

Pit Fired Pots
After the firing still in a bed of ash

Pit Kiln

Pit Fired Pottery

 Pit Fired pottery, because it is fired to a low temperature and not glazed, is porous and not watertight.

 In many ways these pots should be thought of as a painting created by fire and smoke.

The colors of Pit Fired pottery are not fused in a glass, as it is in a glaze. Colors could fade if placed in direct sunlight for long periods.

 

 

Robert Compton Pottery
2662 North 116 Road, Bristol, Vermont 05443, U.S.A.
Phone: 802-453-3778
E-mail: Robert & Christine

 

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