They are pretty irregular so possibly homemade. I don’t know shit about masonry but the perforated cells make me think 1930s-1940s?
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And somehow they still built stuff that lasted out of these.
Legend_of_the_Wind
It was pretty common for old bricks to have been made on site from materials available, especially if you weren’t close to somewhere you could buy them. Basically they’d mix them up, mold them, and leave them to air dry. Once dry they’d basically build a big oven with the uncured bricks, cover it with dirt as insulation, and build a hot fire inside. This process fired the bricks to cure them and make them ready for use.
Not every brick survived this curing process, I suspect that’s what you have here.
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They are pretty irregular so possibly homemade. I don’t know shit about masonry but the perforated cells make me think 1930s-1940s?
And somehow they still built stuff that lasted out of these.
It was pretty common for old bricks to have been made on site from materials available, especially if you weren’t close to somewhere you could buy them. Basically they’d mix them up, mold them, and leave them to air dry. Once dry they’d basically build a big oven with the uncured bricks, cover it with dirt as insulation, and build a hot fire inside. This process fired the bricks to cure them and make them ready for use.
Not every brick survived this curing process, I suspect that’s what you have here.
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