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And it’s true that Anne, currently addicted to playing some farm game on her iPad and not using the potting shed, complete with kiln, that Nick built her, has let joy leak from her life.

The tiles had been fired once, a hundred years ago, in kilns that reached 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, Nonato said.

It was during that time that she invested in an electric kiln, built a slab where the kiln now sits and enclosed it in a shed.

I became addicted to the feel of clay, the triumph-failure cycle of the wheel, the loop-de-loop of joy and horror when pieces finally emerged from the kiln.

It is likely that the pot containing the coins was made at one of the pottery kilns based at the foot of the Malvern Hills.