Sheffield Pottery is our main source for the clay that we use in Ceramics Class. Sheffield Pottery is located in Sheffield, MA. Their facility is built right next to a huge glacier deposit of clay. At their facility, they dig out, clean, and process/mix the clay to prepare it for use...
A little ways up the road from from Sheffield Pottery is the Green River. After a little walk alongside some corn fields, through a narrow wooded path, and after a little bit of wading through the river itself, you can locate a source of pure clay right along the riverside known as "the clay banks"...
Here are some of the pictures I took digging raw clay from the Sheffield Pottery Clay Pits and alongside the Green River:
The Path to the Green River Clay Banks
The Walk Alongside (and through) the Green River
Digging out the Raw Clay on the River Banks
The Clay Pit at Sheffield Pottery, MA
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