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Photo from Save River brick field,Gumira, Chipinge District, Zimbabwe
 
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These are fired bricks that are still stacked in the oven formation. Notice the oven holes, at the base, where entire tree trunks are inserted to burn. This method is inefficient and makes low quality bricks, but high-tech methods are not affordable.

by Robert Joppa
Save River brick field,Gumira, Chipinge District, Zimbabwe (1999)

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