Treverbyn: china clay dry, Wheal Martyn
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Treverbyn: china clay dry, Wheal Martyn
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 25 May 2011
Pan kiln at the Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum and Country Park. Here the under-floor heating channels have been exposed. A chimney stack aided the movement of the hot gases along these flues. In the distance can be seen a truck on the traverser or travelling bridge, enabling clay slurry to be brought to all parts of the kiln from the settling tanks. When dry the clay was cut into blocks with a shovel for dispatch. Wheal Martyn museum is in Treverbyn parish, near St Austell
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Image Location
Latitude
50.365805
Longitude
-4.808916