This site includes a include a pottery workshop, and is located on the western side of the modern city of Jerusalem, in the car park of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, adjacent to the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Hebrew Binyane Ha'uma). Another zone of workshops that might be part of the same large complex is located at the sites of the Hilton Hotel and the Jerusalem International Convention Center.
The earliest production-related remains include a domed two stories kiln and kiln debris. they dates to the 2nd c. BCE, at which the potters made cooking vessels and jars. In the later half of 1st c. BCE to first half of 1st c. CE, the production installations exposed include stepped pools (for filtering, mixing and soaking clay), evaporation pond (for drying the clay), underground cave (where pottery was produced) and pottery kilns. Additionally, thick layers of production waste were found. This workshop operated until the conquest of the city by the Romans in 70 CE, after which the manufacturing resumed and included production of bricks, pipes, roof tiles and pottery- all characteristic of the Legion (although no Legion seal impressions were found).
In the 2nd to 3rd c. CE the site was turned into a legionary kiln works operated by the Roman Tenth Legion, and the location of production was moved south. The pottery workshop was buried beneath the Legion's debris (soil, stone, pottery vessels and roof tiles).
