Verreville Pottery, Glasgow

Excavation was undertaken in advance of the development of the former Verreville Glass and Pottery Works for high-rise apartments. The excavated area comprised only the NW part of the former Verreville site, one of the many industrial pottery factories in Glasgow. The glass works was founded in 1777 with pottery being produced from the early 1800s. Glass-making ceased in the 1840s and the pottery works finally shut down in 1917.

Site evaluation established that buildings, including kilns, survived across the site. Subsequent excavation uncovered the foundation pads for the original glass cone built in 1777, 6 brick-built pottery kilns, a drying room, various other building and  a section of a tramway which would have carried materials and part-finished goods around the site and external yard areas.