Conservation of bottle kiln no 4 involved the repair of the brickwork of the hovel and the replacement of broken bonts to the inner oven.
Decayed bricks were cut out and replaced with a matching black, imperial sized brick.

The outer and inner surfaces were
repointed with lime mortar, coloured with soot to match the existing black mortar.

39 new bonts
were forged by the
blacksmith at Etruria Museum,
and fitted to stabilise the
oven in three new complete bands