Another brick in the wall
Peter Hoare takes a closer look at some examples of the bricks and other products of the Barnham brickyard. Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) Edward Wortley displays the Estate's collection of Barnham bricks and tiles. Photo: Jordan Mansfield/Barnham Palaeolithic Project The connection between Palaeolithic archaeology and clay digging and brickmaking in Barnham is well established. Many of the varied products from the Barnham brickyard are shown in the first photograph (together with Edward Wortley, the Estate’s archivist, who looks after this archive). They consist largely of red, white and black-glazed bricks, tiles and coping stones made from the two types of brickearth dug from East Farm. The carbonate-rich sediment exposed in archaeological Area III would have been tempered with non-calcareous brickearth to allow it to be fired. Details of sales from the brickyard are recorded in the single surviving ledger
