The Gezer kiln was located inside and immediately west of the city gate. R. A. S. Macalester first excavated this kiln (Macalester 1912: 220, fig. 107 and Plan VI, strip 17, where it is labelled ‘oven’); a century later it was re-excavated by the Tandy Expedition (Wolff et al. 2015: 43 and fig. 1), along with a large deposit of kiln debris and wasters. Much of the kiln debris comes from a large ashy pit in an open zone to the west and northwest of the kiln, below a wide diagonal terrace wall (Wall 62011, Area A4-5) that separates the zone of kiln debris from the kiln itself. The size of the construction suggests that there was a ceramic workshop here.
The ceramics associated with this kiln can all be dated to the later 4th-early...