Mick Aston Annual Lecture 2023: Roman Tile Production at Minety

The village of Minety, 12 miles south of Cirencester, has long been known as a place where ceramic tile production took place during the Roman period, and in particular the likely source of tiles stamped with a series of Latin letters which are found in Cirencester, across the Cotswolds, and beyond.
In 2022, Cotswold Archaeology commenced a community-based project at Brandiers Farm, the first new field-investigation of the Minety tile industry in almost fifty years. The results exceeded our expectations. The talk will describe the tile kiln and its products, and what this tells us about how the Roman authorities created the necessary infrastructure to construct what we know as Roman Britain.
With speakers Neil Holbrook and Peter Warry