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Encyclopedia > Mud brick

A Mudbrick is an unfired brick made of clay.


In warm regions with little timber available to fuel a kiln, bricks were generally sun dried. This had the result that their useful lifespan is reduced to around thirty years. Once a building collapsed, new bricks would have to be made and the new structure rebuilt on top of the rubble of the decayed old brick. This phenomenon is the primary factor behind the mounds or tells on which many ancient cities stand.


The earliest use of mudbricks was in the Near East during the Pre-pottery Neolithic B period. The Sumerians used plano-convex mudbrick. Some bricks were formed in a square mould and rounded so that the middle was thicker than the ends. Other methods such as terre piseé (also known as pisé) involved laying down clay or mud as walls directly without separating it into bricks.


Adobe is a mudbrick from the Americas.


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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Brick (3704 words)
A highly impervious and ornamental surface may be laid on brick either by salt glazing, in which salt is added during the burning process, or by the use of a "slip," which is a glaze material into which the bricks are dipped.
Bricks are usually laid flat and as a result the effective limit on the width of a brick is set by the distance which can conveniently be spanned between the thumb and fingers of one hand, normally about four inches (about 100 mm).
Bricks are made by kneading a mixture of crushed clay and other materials into a stiff mud and extruding it into a ribbon.
Mudbrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (327 words)
Once a building collapsed, new bricks would have to be made and the new structure rebuilt on top of the rubble of the decayed old brick.
The Sumerians used bricks that were flat on the bottom and curved on the top, called plano-convex mudbricks.
Some bricks were formed in a square mould and rounded so that the middle was thicker than the ends.
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