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Description:
This object or piece of "kiln furniture" was used to raise pieces of pottery off of the kiln floor as they fired in the kiln. These pieces of clay prevented pots from sticking to the kiln floor or other objects. Being expendable tools, very few of these kiln stilts survive to the present day and more often are found archaeologically at kiln sites. Three-pronged stilt, v-shaped flat top on threee pointed feet; two of the feet are slightly glazed, This object was excavated at the site of the Wachusetts Pottery in West Sterling, MA., ex. coll. Lura Woodside Watkins.

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