![]() Construction on this began in the 11th century, reusing materials from the Roman British town Verulamium. Some buildings from the period in between were built with re-used Roman bricks, for example the nave of St Alban’s Abbey. When the Romans left Britain in the 5th century, so too did brick-making, until the 12th century. Roman bricks can be found throughout the UK at significant sites such as Burgh Castle in Norfolk, and as far north as Newstead at Melrose in Scotland. The bricks made by the Romans were generally wider and thinner than those today and were used in various ways, including as lacing courses in walls of rubble stonemasonry and in the construction of supporting pillars for hypocaust heating systems. This article looks at its long historyīritain first acquired the skills to manufacture fired clay bricks when large parts of the country became part of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Brick has been used as a building material across the UK since Roman times. ![]()
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