Mineral
Clay
Clay → Pots
Picture to come.
Fine, sticky earth dug from local pits. Clay was the most versatile building and craft material of the period: mixed with straw and dung as daub for wattle walls, fired into pottery and roof tiles, used to line furnaces, hearths and ovens, and to seal pits and ponds. Brick-making from clay was very rare in 12th-century England.
Sources: historicengland.org.uk · historicengland.org.uk
Made by
- Dig clay
Used to make
- Fire pottery
- Fire bricks
- Fire tiles
- Make a still
- Fire glazed pottery
Used to build
- Tannery
- Bloomery
- Kiln
- Cottage
- Spinner's cottage
- Retting pond
- Saltern
- Bare tanning pit
- Fulling trough
- Smokehouse
- Tar kiln
- Foundry
- Copperas works
- Glassworks
- Saltpetre works
- Ore hearth
- Cupellation hearth
- Blowing house