5 posts filed under wild clay.
Wild clay sits in riverbanks, road cuttings, ditches and building excavations almost everywhere. Here is how to spot it, two field tests that confirm it, and the rules on digging.
Slaking, sieving, settling and drying dug clay into a throwable body, plus the test firing that tells you what temperature it can actually take.
You cannot turn soil into clay, but most soil contains clay you can extract. Here is the water-separation method that pulls usable clay out of ordinary dirt.
Clay is weathered rock. Feldspar in granite breaks down over long periods into fine plate-shaped minerals, which water then carries and deposits in beds.
Clay in the ground appears as smooth, uniform bands of grey, blue, orange or cream in exposed faces. Here is how to recognise it and tell it from silt and loam.