Chinese Construction - Methods and Materials

23. Inside Brick Kiln

Here the dried bricks are taken off the handcart and carefully stacked ready to be fired. It is warm in here, dusty, and very dark. It was somewhat difficult to photograph. The chamber was rounded, about 9 feet high, bricked on the sides and about 60 feet long. At the other end, shown in the next picture, another crew is taking handcart loads of fired brick out to be loaded onto wagons to be taken away.