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Bricks
Iona Burbidge and her 5 year old daughter Marianne are fanatical about archaeology. Everywhere they go they pick things up. Marianne has even started digging trenches in the garden of their mid-Victorian cottage in Shearsby south of Leicester. The house is made out of brick and it’s these that inspired their question to Making History. Some have finger marks on them and there are stories in the village about ‘Shearsby bricks’, i.e. bricks made in Shearsby. But, how to find a long-gone brickworks?