East Flanders
At the edge of a flooded clay pit, a rusting clay dredger recalls the mechanical mining of clay for the brick industry.
Clay Dredger
Clay pits had, from the end of the nineteenth century, taken over more than half of the territory of the hamlet of Terhagen in Belgium. After excavation, nature gradually reclaimed its space.
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