Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations

Clays of the Piedmont · By Dirk Frankenberg

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Figure 1. Mining for primary clays near Hillsborough.

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Potters digging stoneware clay from a secondary clay deposit in Chatham County around 1900.

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Figure 2. Native American clay objects have been excavated from Town Creek Indian Mound, shown here.

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Figure 3. Pottery recovered from Town Creek Indian Mound.

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Figure 4. Pot fragments and utilitarian pottery from Town Creek.

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Figure 6. Utilitarian pottery from the eighteenth century.

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Figure 7. Colonial pottery, utilitarian and less so.

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A map of the sites visited in this field trip.

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Figure 8. More colonial pottery.

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Figure 9. This Wedgwood pottery was manufactured from North Carolina white clay.

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Figure 10. A clay pond used in contemporary pottery manufacture.

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Figure 11. The drying area of a modern pottery.

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Figure 12. Machinery for grinding clay for pottery.

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Figure 13. A modern pottery workshop.

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Figure 14. A modern gas-fired kiln.

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Figure 15. A wood-fired kiln and its creator.

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Figure 17. Interior view of a groundhog kiln.

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Figure 18. These pottery sculptures represent the acme of achievement in North Carolina pottery.