Heinrich Schliemann finds Bricks in the Plain of Troy

Heinrich Schliemann, Ilios, The City and Country of the Trojans, discussing the excavations of Dr Virchow:

He dug a fourth hole in the dry overgrown bed of the In Tepeh Asmak, close to the little neck of land at the south-west corner of Rhoeteum. Here he found the same compact clammy rich black earth, to a depth of 1 métre 10 centimetres; there were no stones in it, but a great number of rounded pieces of baked bricks. 

Ilios, p 88

Professor Virchow goes on to say: ‘‘ However satisfactory this result is in itself, it is but of little use for the chronological question. Only in the In Tepeh Asmak I found fragments of bricks in the silt of the riverbed, which bore witness to the comparative lateness of this silting up, which must, therefore, have taken place when brick-baking men already had their habitations in the Plain. I observe here that these brick fragments occurred not only on the surface, but also below. On this side, therefore, there can exist no evidence against the opinion that the In Tepeh Asmak has ceased to be a real outlet only in a relatively modern time.”

Ilios, p 89

These might be two descriptions of the same find, it might be two different finds.  It seems significant that all the way down by Rhoeteum, on the Dardanelles, there are "a great number of rounded pieces of baked bricks" in the ground.  Virchow is right that the silting up of the entrance to the In Tepeh Asmak north of Kum Koi probably took place after "brick-baking men already had their habitations in the Plain." He found bricks on the surface and also below the surface,  Seems like there might be a lot more of them around.  

We don't know if those are bronze age bricks or not, of course.  But I can imagine that a flooded mudbrick city in the plain would have left so many baked bricks to wash away that they would still be found way down river at the coast, three or four miles away, 3000 years later.