via Smitsonian Institution: New report uploaded on the Ceramics of Mainland Southeast Asia site on the Chong Samrong Kiln Site in Cambodia.
The excavation of Angkorian-period kiln sites in Cambodia, which began in 1996, at first yielded evidence for production of unglazed and green-glazed stoneware only. The mystery of where the well-known brown-glazed stoneware had been made was solved only when sites for such ware were identified east of Angkor. The initial excavation at the Torp Chey kiln site, in 2011, revealed a larger kiln than any known before with distinctive technical features—secondary firing trenches across the kiln body. The 2013 excavation of the nearby Chong Samrong kiln site, reported here, was designed as a training opportunity for young archaeologists from Southeast Asia as well as a source of further information on the kind of kiln used to produce brown-glazed Angkorian stoneware.
