Nerrina Clay Pits

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Background

Clay from the Nerrina Clay Pits was an easily accessed and free source of clay which afforded amateur and professional potters a wonderfully plastic body that fired to the richest of terracotta colour. The Nerrina clay pits were obliterated by the Ballarat by-pass ring road.

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Ceramics

Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

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--Clare K.Gervasoni 12:03, 25 October 2016 (AEDT)