[2] The use of this stilt can be deduced from damage to the glaze where the three raised points were in direct contact with it.
[8] A stilt has been found at a Roman kiln site near Holt, Wrexham County Borough dating to around the first or second century AD.
[9] In archaeology, they may be upside-down baked clay tripods, leaving characteristic marks at the bottoms of the pottery/porcelain.
In the 19th century centralised industrial production of molded three-arm stilts began common in the UK with Staffordshire exporting them to other parts of the country.
[7] Some researchers have used kiln stilts as a settlement substrate for coral larva including those of the species Dendrogyra cylindrus.