A 250-year-old brick kiln was discovered in Monticello’s East Lawn in 2018 as part of the Plantation Archaeological Survey. Researchers found two uniform segments of bricks, each two bricks wide, and later discovered the disassembled kin dating back to the 1768-1782 construction of Monticell I. The kiln may have been used by brickworkers or by some of the more than 600 people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. The discovery has already changed how we understand the building of the historic home.