25 January 2018

Botany Bay Brick Pit, Brandon, Suffolk ....

"A remote brick pit in the forest, the findspot for a massive Palaeolithic handaxe.  A mile’s trek through Thetford Forest brings you to a remote place named Botany Bay. It is a Victorian brick-making site, and includes a wooded brickearth pit, a dilapidated kiln structure with scatters of broken bricks, and the forlorn remains of Bromehill Cottage. Apart from being a reminder of local industrial history, Botany Bay is also interesting as a historic site of Palaeolithic archaeological research."
Source:- http://www.breakingnewground.org.uk/earthheritagetrail/

On the restricted byway leading up to Botany Bay Brick Pit.....

Maybe next time we'll take a sled with us....









Botany Bay Brick Pit...










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