Brickyard

A brickyard, or brickfield, is a place or yard where the earthen building material called bricks are made,[1] fired, and stored, or sometimes sold or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of clay or on or near a construction site if necessity or design requires the bricks to be made locally.[2][3]

Illustration of workers in a brickyard from Germany, 1695

Domed kilns on ancient brickyards in Kabul

A brickyard in postwar Poland

Roman military brick factory in Northern Hungary, near the Danube Bend

See also

• Brickfield, a common location name in south east England where bricks used to be made
• Brickworks, another type of place where bricks are made, often on a larger scale, and with mechanization
• Clay pit, a quarry or mine for clay
• Kiln, the type of high heat oven that bricks are baked in

References

1. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Press 2009
2. Lovejoy, Ellis. Economies in brickyard construction and operation. Indianapolis, Ind.: T.A. Randall, 1913. Print.
3. Pearce, Adrian (1987). "Chalk Mining & Associated Industries of Frindsbury" (PDF). Shropshire History. Kent Underground Research Group. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

Sources

• Watt, Kathleen Ann. "Nineteenth Century Brickmaking Innovations in Britain: Building and Technological Change" (PDF). etheses. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

External links

• "Brickmaking History". brickcollecting.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.