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Brick Pits and other Old Holes on Bernard's Heath

by Chris Reynolds

Presented at the St Albans & District Local History Autumn Conference

on 22nd October at the Verulamium Museum
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Making Bricks by Hand

In making brick the brick earth was cleaned in a pug mill [circular structure top right] and sometimes mixed with soft chalk. To do this water was needed. [see pump]

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