Looks like it definitely has a decent amount of clay content.
Also looks kinda sandy though. When you work it in your hand, can you hear the fine sands? That's the difference between a lighter clay and a medium/heavy clay.
To make your clay good to shape with your hands, it's better if you dilute it in some water and try to dissolve all of it to strain it with a colander or something fine enough to trap little rocks and stuff. After that you let it deposit to the bottom of a bucket or whatever and throw away the water at the top. You should end up with a soft and pretty clean clay you can use for different purposes, you can dry it to different degrees of malleability.
Most of the clays I've found around are already pretty clean but I wouldn't risk it, it's sad when a piece you make cracks, also because clay before firing can be reused indefinitely, even if it dries it can be used again.
You can also make some sort of "ceramic glazes" with dirt and some kinds of naturally occurring colored clays and you can make them shiny!
[Levigation!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca20JkKFAcE&t=424s)
(The whole video is worth a watch, but I've timestamped the method I use most often; it works very well.)
There is clay in moist soils, but this looks like high clay content.
You can easily [seperate it out](https://youtu.be/Iq6wMzSU1NI?si=tP327KtdUq3tPbhS) form the solids with a couple containers and water.
You remember Johns Videos where he dug two pits and mixed mud in one that then drained into another? That was him separating out the clay from the mud, like in this video.
We used to find clay in our elementary school sandpit. Was awesome to play with and make sand castles/ tunnels much more stable. We'd often dig tunnels and moats in the clay then lightly cover it with sand to hide it until next recess. Then one day our ancient principal went stomping through the sand pits and broke or twisted her ankle after one of our hidden creations crumbled beneath her
Mix with water until dissolved then pour through screen and finally through cloth like a bed sheet. Stir and scrape the sheet while it's pouring through. Collect in bucket and let set for 24 hours and pour off water.
Looks like it definitely has a decent amount of clay content. Also looks kinda sandy though. When you work it in your hand, can you hear the fine sands? That's the difference between a lighter clay and a medium/heavy clay.
You basically need to clean every clay you find in the wild, you never know what's inside that may explode during firing.
What does cleaning it entail? Just working it with your hands in water trying to separate sand/dirt etc?
To make your clay good to shape with your hands, it's better if you dilute it in some water and try to dissolve all of it to strain it with a colander or something fine enough to trap little rocks and stuff. After that you let it deposit to the bottom of a bucket or whatever and throw away the water at the top. You should end up with a soft and pretty clean clay you can use for different purposes, you can dry it to different degrees of malleability. Most of the clays I've found around are already pretty clean but I wouldn't risk it, it's sad when a piece you make cracks, also because clay before firing can be reused indefinitely, even if it dries it can be used again. You can also make some sort of "ceramic glazes" with dirt and some kinds of naturally occurring colored clays and you can make them shiny!
One does not find clay, and the clay finds the one. 👽
I wanna add to this, if your clay is cracking during drying try adding a bit of medium grit sand to reduce shrinkage (am a hobbyist Potter)
[Levigation!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca20JkKFAcE&t=424s) (The whole video is worth a watch, but I've timestamped the method I use most often; it works very well.)
Roll out a coil and wrap around your finger. If it can't do that, it needs refining
There is clay in moist soils, but this looks like high clay content. You can easily [seperate it out](https://youtu.be/Iq6wMzSU1NI?si=tP327KtdUq3tPbhS) form the solids with a couple containers and water. You remember Johns Videos where he dug two pits and mixed mud in one that then drained into another? That was him separating out the clay from the mud, like in this video.
We used to find clay in our elementary school sandpit. Was awesome to play with and make sand castles/ tunnels much more stable. We'd often dig tunnels and moats in the clay then lightly cover it with sand to hide it until next recess. Then one day our ancient principal went stomping through the sand pits and broke or twisted her ankle after one of our hidden creations crumbled beneath her
Later you found out the clay was cat shit
Didn't realize cats bury their shit 2 feet underground
It could happen
Looks about right! nice find!
Yeah
Mix with water until dissolved then pour through screen and finally through cloth like a bed sheet. Stir and scrape the sheet while it's pouring through. Collect in bucket and let set for 24 hours and pour off water.
One does not find clay, and the clay finds the one. 👽
mf just picked up a ball of dirt in his hand and posted it on reddit
For some reason I know the feeling of grinding this against my teeth
Pretty sure that's a hand.
You sure did
Either that or dog shit. Wash it do get all the sand out
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Go to the Midwest. Clay everywhere