At the western edge of the estate, in Area B, a double kiln structure was unearthed. The kiln complex was relatively well-preserved, although mechanical equipment razed much of the southern kiln and damaged the northern kiln. The structure was constructed in a pit c. 6.5 m deep that cut through Intermediate Bronze Age layers and into virgin soil. The complex comprised two round kilns of the updraft type (L316, L322; interior diam. at base 3.9 m) separated by a rectangular, subterranean corridor (L305; 2 × 5 m), with a narrow, steep stone staircase (L315; 1.4 × 6.0 m), leading up to ground level.
The complex was framed within a thick layer (0.5 m) of cast concrete mixed with small fieldstones, which prevented moisture from seeping in from the surrounding earth. The staircase, comprising 24 stairs, was flanked by walls of dressed kurkar stones that were joined with a lime mortar mixture of crushed seashells and kurkar; it was set into the concrete frame. The staircase supported a barrel vault that covered this largely subterranean staircase.
The kilns were lined with lightly-fired mud bricks, which comprised an inner wall set against the outer concrete frame. The double walls were preserved in the northern kiln up to a height of 5.75 m; it is estimated that this was nearly the full height of the walls, which probably carried a brickbuilt dome with an outlet flue at its center. Two stone-built arched doorways connected the corridor with the firing boxes.
The northern kiln, which was partially excavated, was illed with chunks of mud, wasters and a large quantity of broken pottery, most of which were the latest subtype of the torpedo-shaped Gaza jar (Majcherek Form 4, late sixth and early seventh centuries CE; Majcherek 1995:169). These remains apparently slid into the collapsed kiln from a nearby heap of pottery-kiln debris. Remains of heaps covered with soil survived intact (up to 5 m high) to the southeast of Kiln 316 (L719).
The kilns were used to manufacture only this type of jar, which served as the standard storage vessel for wine and other products of the estate, as was the case at other estates in the southern coastal plain. The immense quantity of debris near the kilns suggests that additional kilns, yet uncovered, operated nearby.