Dear Nadja,
I wonder whether you have considered the possibility of this being a hornworking
shop. Tanners did not use ovens but horners did. At a 14th cent site in England
a furnace was associated with hornworking activity.
See:
Wenham L.P. 1965. Hornpot Lane and the horners of York. Annual report of the
Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1964, 25-26.
[I can provide a copy if you want]
Cheers,
Umberto
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