In the right-of-way for a new railroad line at Yavneh, the ruins of 4 kilns active during the late 4th - early 3rd century BCE were uncovered recently. Some 50 m the remains of the largest Byzantine-era pottery factories in the Middle East were uncovered https://www.levantineceramics.org/kilns/43-yavneh-railway-line-byzantine-amphora-kilns. 

Two different phases of activity were identified, the first includes rounded kilns and the later includes one oval kiln.

Inside the first phase kilns a large amount of cooking pots were found. In the second kiln, lots of small sherds of the same cooking pots were found but non complete; instead a large amount of clay and melted clay was found. The workshop makes use of the collecting vats and pools of the previous phase industrial wine press as part of the processing installations of the workshop.