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"clay pit" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun phrase used to refer to a hole in the ground where clay is excavated and mined. For example, "The archeological site revealed an ancient clay pit used to create pottery and tools."
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clay pit
noun
A quarry for clay
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The Equestrian Friends of Clay Pit builds and maintains bridle paths around Charleston and in Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve.
There was an old clay pit out back of the farm that housed the original college.
Here, a row of half a dozen stalls sell méchoui, lamb roasted in an underground clay pit.
The Eden Project, an environmental theme park deep in the heart of the Cornish countryside, was formerly a clay pit.
An amateur fossil hunter found the reptile's partial skeleton in a clay pit near Peterborough in the early 1900s.
There's also the Eden Project, which transformed the bottom of an old clay pit into vast greenhouses.
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He worked in the clay pits outside Golden and was credited with innovations in producing ceramics.
"It was clay pits, quarries, coal mines, chimneys, sewer pipes, and kilns then.
(Glacially deposited fossils do turn up now and then, and amber used to be found in Staten Island clay pits).
The large ponds you pass were originally clay pits; they've now been turned into a nature reserve.
England has large tracts of derelict areas, scarred by the spoil heaps of the coal mines, quarries and clay pits, abandoned industrial plants, and rundown slums.
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