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Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic : comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)

Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire : W. J. Furnival · leaf 359

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t the “ deposit resembles that of the Bovey Basin, both in regard to the quality of the clay and the manner in which it lies . The Merton clays are deposited in beds sloping at angles similar to those of Bovey. The deposit is entirely surrounded by hills, except at one point, where a chasm of but… … Fio. 152. — Marland clay-pit, N. Devon. (By permission oj 1898, from which we learn E. Ho twill, Esq.) that it is practically the only clayfield of any extent in North Devon, except local brickmaking clays and the red clay of Framington. How far the deposit extends towards Dartmoor, which is…

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