Red-clay stove tiles from the excavations in the Bolshoy garden square of the Moscow kremlin

During the 2019 excavations in the Moscow Kremlin that opened up the foundation trenches of the building of New Prikazes (1675-1770s) as well as the layers related to the operation of the Old Prikazes (1591-1670s) a representative series of red-clay stove tiles was collected. The study of this corpus of sources identified remains of stove sets used in the buildings of the Old Prikazes which are referred to the end of the 16th -the early 17th centuries. The study focuses on the stratigraphic position of the finds, search of analogies and the chronology of the discovered ceramic tiles. Some red-clay tiles were discovered in the layer of the New Prikazes as redeposited materials. The linkage between solitary finds of white-clay glazed tiles and stove sets from prikaz buildings of the middle-second half of the 16th century was established.