Toward where I got off the trail, I noticed lots of terra cotta clay gutters, pots, etc. half buried in the ground. I was thinking if you ever wanted to build a terra cotta roof, you could probably scavenge enough here to do it! Then I saw a compound of brick kilns. I investigated...

A largish building toward the south seemed to have been lived in long ago. A rotten blanket gave this away. Also there were the beginnings of someone trying to organize things a little bit. There was a set of 10 or 12 starters crudely lined up in rows.

????

I'm not going to open it...YOU open it!

Not my bike...^
THAT'S my bike.

....weird place. I liked it.

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