Nice to see your lady. We don't see enough of her. Looks like it was a wonderful time out there together, hope you got a bunch of good stuff.

Little bit o history from the uk, you probably know this already. In early medieval times potters would also take their clay from roads for the same reasons you give. Hence the name for holes in the road were pot-holes. Great content.

Thanks Andy. The video whets my appetite for a road trip. Good job.

Howdy Andy , y’all make a nice pair & once again , you made a real nice video for us to join in & learn a little more about different clays , how they were formed & the fact that you are truly searching for the very clays that the Ancients possibly used ! Keep up the good work , we appreciate you & Tanya in the making of this video ( not everyone has this privilege! )

great job

Thanks for doing our research, I appreciate it!

I get such inspiration from watching your videos. I live in the Great Lake State of Michigan. The glaciers took all of our wonderful soil and left plenty of clay. I am a novice and trying to learn how to gather clay from my farm. It’s all clay soil here. I slip after a rain in the field. I have an embankment I was told by neighbors that potters gathered clay from. It’s a very wet climate so harder for me to judge. The soil is all very plastic. I can squeeze it into a nice form that keeps its shape. So I’m hoping to start learning more about my native clay. It’s very blue gray in color. Very different from yours. So thank you for your videos and helping a novice learn!!❤️😊

Our side field (pennsylvania) has soil where nothing really grows -- it's a run off for rain. When it is dry, it's all cracked on the surface like you showed with your one sample. I will definitely have to try a sample there and see if I can find where to dig!

Just stumbled onto this channel and so glad I did. Easily one of my favorite. I have learned so much.

These wild clay videos are my favorite from your channel! The scenery is gorgeous!

This is right where I live I got some really rockhounding places if you want to know about them and some places to go see ancient pottery laying everywhere

That was fascinating, thank you for a great video

Looked like a fun trip! Hope some of those clays turn out to be real good!!

Finding and processing clay are my favourite favourite videos 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Lovely video journey. Thank you.

Nice video. Thanks for taking us along.lots of info. Nice to kick back and learn. Thank you.

I Had to stop the video to comment on the cool tip of using your phone's GPS when taking the picture to be able to find your way back to the source of your sample!

What a fun trip, and all about clay. You are so methodical and painstaking, no wonder you know so much. Howdy Tanya!

Great to see you both.

Check the ownership of the land, what a great piece of advice... We usually get our clay from National Forrest, they permit it as long as you are not taking an industrial load!!! LOL! Thanks for the nice little trip. I believe this to be the best part of building pots is finding clay places.

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You should check with some companies that drill water wells. They bring up clay all the time. Plus, the action of drilling powders the clay.

I'm interested in how some of those upland clays turn out. I'm guessing that they may not necessarily be poorer clays, they just weren't as convenient to the original inhabitants who lived by the river. Now the convenience factor is reversed. BTW, this video reminded me of what seemed to me vast deposits of reddish brown clay on the side of U.S. 93 southeast of Kingman to Wikieup, following the Big Sandy River northwest of Phoenix and Wickenberg. I haven't heard of any cultural tradition that used these, but I may try to gather some next time I pass through that area.

Enjoyed the video....its time for some new clay........

nice day and good harvest. A very likeable woman...greetings from Germany

Hi timely! I walk the dog over in Pipestone, MT near butte. It’s famous for extinct mammals. I want to try making something from it!

I take photos of all the clays I find to remember where they are, but I was using a camera that doesnt have gps. so now I take pictures with a GPS on the clay. Not quite as neat as your way but it is better than relying on my memory 🙂 My phone takes terrible pictures so I dont bother using it. Oh I liked the sign saying you have primitive roads, it sounds like it might take you back in time..

Any clay out near west of Gila Bend on Painted Rock? Road? North of the solar plants

Hi Andy, we’re about to drive toward Sierra Vista Friday morning. Will be hoping to find Clay along the way. In this video when you showed where you were on the map were you using a specific app or just the regular iPhone map?

I have what looks like good clay and ive tryed soooo many different things but only really had 1 or 2 pots without cracks! I often only get a few hairline cracks in Im going to try sand as temper instead of grog, do you think that will make a difference? Im also going to buy proper clay that oeople use for kilns to test that!!, do you think i need to add more than 20% temper in the processed clay? Thank you

Hey, Andy! I'm new around here and one thing I haven't seen you talk about as far as primitive pottery goes is ash glaze. I've seen you talk about sealants, but ash glaze was used in china beginning around 1500 bc. Since you make a lot oof interesting pottery videos, I was just curious, could you do one on the ash glaze?

Can you please expound on the "great calamity" of the early 1400's? I couldn't find any info by Googling it. Thanks. I'm going to Arizona next month camping and I'm going to be looking for clays.

will you make a ancient roman oil lamp?

Is there a difference in how to proccess clay if it's from an area with a lot more vegitation and biological components in it? I live in a more forested region, but the tracks at the edges of feilds and through the forrest do form nice tall distinct tracks.

I appreciate the knowledge youve given us and im really eager to try this out myself. The only issue is I really cannot handle the texture of unglazed pottery, it directly conflicts with sensory issues i have. I know you prefer not to use glaze, and i dont want to ask you to change your view because i think youre probably right, but would you show us how people made glaze in ancient times for folks like me?

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours. Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us. 👍👍👍👍👍

Hi, can you please upload a vedio to make taraotta animals like, turtle, horse, elephant and other things like music instrument and humans, also humans playing them. I am trying to make them but it seems very hard to make without good tools.

I'm from casa grande. I have a lot of clay in my yard and reeeallly want to make structures with it. Any advice? It's more orange/red than brown

so is that native land you were on?... Cause to the north of the Gila River is reservation... what towns were you near?

Wishing you had a hat for sale.

It takes clay from several sources to get good clay to use for pottery.

Better luck probably closer to Pima or Fort Tomas.

How to make a brick?! New video idea

Can you find clay that just will always have hairline cracks and cracks in no matter the temper etc?

I ended up finding much better results down by the river here very plastic clay you just have to follow the river against the stream before you cross the bridge in Fort Thomas the clay becomes more and more pure about a 15 minute walk following the old flow of water for the river

If you were in georgia this video would be about 30 seconds long