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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 358

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tes, of all sizes, from that of •small shot to that of an egg, are in some places abundant. Detached pieces of lignite, too, are very common — sometimes with the surface changed into mundic. The clay and accompanying beds at Decoy rest against the Greensand Hills surrounding this portion of the… … 8. Three seams of lignite, separated by fine clay. 1. ‘ Head ’ of gravel. 9. Fine clay. 2. Sand. 10. Rough clay. 3. Muddy clay. 11. Fine clay. 4. Lignite. 12. Rough clay, with gravel. 5. Clay. 13. Rough sand and muddy clay. 6. Lignite. 7. Clay. The beds dip to the east. “Fig. 15 1 shows a section…

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