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and lots more underneath where I was digging too, but they can stop there!

Thats strange you should find them after talking about it just last night.  Do folk realise they are Tudor bricks!!!!


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From where they were located in the garden, these are more likely to be hand made, locally, in the early 1800,s. One of the fields nearby is called Brick Kiln Field. Mind they could also be recycled tudor bricks, as there seems to have been a lot of reuse of old materials here. The white stuff is lime mortar by the way,so this is not a modern creation.

You can estimate the age of a brick from its size, as they got larger with time. You can't do much with fragments though.

i wounder if you asked time team they would dig them all out for you lol

Sure beats the pink breeze block bricks I keep digging up in one of the gardens I go to!

I also found a modern (ie post war) wall built of what we call field stones (rather like the rounded boulders found on beaches or in streams). I know it is modern 'cos they have used concrete rather than lime mortar. Now I have another 4 barrow loads of rocks to find a use for!