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...
Eli Hadad and Liat Nadav-Ziv excavated the site on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority