Sentence examples for dig clay from inspiring English sources

Ancient rights of marl allowed commoners to dig clay from the score or so of designated pits for use as fertiliser to improve their generally thin, acidic soil, or to build cob cottages and barns.

But one day in the summer of 1986, workers digging clay for bricks discovered two rectangular pits.

A construction project stumbles upon an ancient city; a peasant digs clay and accidentally uncovers a forgotten tomb.

On a day like any other in the summer of 1986, brickyard workers digging clay in the village of Sanxingdui in Sichuan Province in southwestern China came upon something extraordinary.

Then he was transferred to a camp nearby, where he moved timbers, and then to another, called New Jerusalem, where he dug clay.

In the catalog from Yale University Press the curator Jack Hinton explains how medieval ceramists dug clay out of mine shafts and set off clouds of acid fumes while formulating salty glazes.

Uncle John, for fear the children could not do this, got a spade and dug clay and dirt steps in the bank so that we had little difficulty in reaching the level.

However it is not an obligate lithophyte, and can colonise recently dug clay soil banks by trail sides, and indeed the largest population observed was along the coastal trail toward the subterranean river cave entrance.

The brick-making process was collaboratively conducted on site where women dug clay, molded bricks and fired kilns together towards a communal goal.

Bringing education to child labourers in rural Pakistan Chandian Talawan Village 201, Faisalabad, February 2009 - The sun shines brightly on a warm winter morning while Imran digs clay and loads it into a makeshift cart.

For fun, they would swim around Hen Island and collect old Indian arrowheads and dig for clay to make pots.