[Coalboard]

Originally Posted by Manx Centor

Found this today whilst walking with my dog and spade, does this mean it's an really old brick or has it been heated? Don't know the first thing about the world of brick origins... loads of rips and holes in the inner and very strand like texture. Might help me work out hat something is too

That old brick shows the clay was hand wedged, bit like when you're kneading bread dough. In ceramics when you wedge the clay you are trying to get all the air bubbles out, in bread making it's the opposite. That metal structure is a timber clamp say off an old gate or whatever.

Might sound a pain in the bot but I studied ceramics for 3 years, building kilns, making and firing pots, designing glazes, firing earthenware, stoneware, salt glaze and raku kilns, if anyone wants any info re pottery works and processes etc fire away