Placing the saggars
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Placing the saggars
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 23 Aug 2009
The placer stacked the saggars in the kiln for firing. The last firing of a traditional kiln was in 1978. There were once over 2000 kilns in the six towns and they turned the air black with coal smoke. Photograph taken at the Gladstone Pottery Museum.
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