Masonry oven India, tandoors are traditional clay ovens, although these days modern electrically fired tandoors are available. The open-topped tandoor is a transitional design between the earth oven and the Roman-plan masonry oven. In the precolumbian Americas, similar ovens were often made of clay or adobe and are now referred to by the Spanish term "horno" (meaning "oven"). Horns are also traditional in the American Southwest. The traditional direct-fired masonry design is often called a "Roman" or "black" oven and dates in Western culture to at least the Roman Republic. It is known as a black oven because the fire generates soot
Coke Oven Hollow, Indiana 1837, a coal mine was noted at the settlement, used for the production of coke. A pottery had been established at nearby Annapolis since 1841. Potters' clay mined at Garrard Quarry in Coke Oven Hollow was used there to manufacture stoneware. A flatboat builder was also located at Coke Oven Hollow. Industrial activities declined by the early 1900s, and the settlement today is covered by mature forest, and is located within the Mossy Point Nature Preserve. Coke Oven Hollow, Indiana Coke Oven Hollow (also called Foundry) is a ghost town in Penn Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of