0 thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks and containers
1 thick, heavy earth that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked:
Undoubtedly, if they had wanted to they could have produced naturalistic clay animals, with heads and legs, for example.
The skull was discovered when one of the clay objects accidentally broke.
The formation of the clay minerals can be divided into three different stages in the tuffs.
The sands are mostly well drained but low-lying areas accumulate sufficient clay and fines to retain water for periods after rainfall.
From the eighteenth century landowners had recognised the need for effective techniques for draining impermeable clay soils.
The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls were whitened with either a wash of clay or with lime.
The building's concrete shell is insulated on the exterior and wrapped with extruded clay planks.
The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.