The museum was recently gifted four bricks that were found well over 10 years ago. The locally made 8inch square bricks were located in an eroding river bank in an area once the location of Corbin Hall Plantation but now lost to the Rappahannock River. Made between 1650 to 1720 in Flanders , the Flemish made yellow bricks were discovered buried deep in the ground in the area of Corbin Hall Plantation and thought to be the flooring of a structure. The Flemish bricks were used as ballast in ships leaving Europe for the new world. Both bricks were on display at the 2022 Oyster Festival MOM booth to reflect the materials and design of our earliest structures.
This is a photograph of the Flemish brick floor as discovered many years ago.
A brief YouTube video of the bricks along the river
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