We have carried out a deep near-infrared survey of a bright-rimmed molecular cloud , BRC 14 ( IC 1848A ) .
The 10 \sigma limiting magnitude of the survey is 17.7 mag at the K -band .
Seventy-four sources are classified as young stellar object ( YSO ) candidates based on the near-infrared color-color diagram .
The faintest YSO candidates may have masses of an order of tenths of the solar mass , assuming the age of 1 Myr .
We examined three values as indicators of star formation ; fraction of the YSO candidates , extinctions of all sources , and near-infrared excesses of the YSO candidates .
All indicators increase from outside of the rim to the center of the molecular cloud , which suggests that the formation of the low-mass stars in the BRC 14 region proceeds from outside to the center of the cloud .