ANALYSIS OF GLASS AND GLASSWORKING WASTE FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF GUILDFORD MUSEUM
Author(s): C Mortimer
Seven pieces of glass and glassworking waste from three sites in the Guildford area were analysed using SEM-EDAX. Three sixteenth-century vessel fragments from Tunsgate, Guildford were made of soda glass. A late thirteenth-century urinal, found in the Royal Palace, Guildford Castle, was made of potash glass. Two fragments of glass and glassworking waste, from the fourteenth-century glass furnace at Blunden's Wood, Hambledon were potash glass. A piece of glassworking 'scum' from the site was shown to be mostly silica with low levels of alkali and lime and a high level iron level.
- Report Number:
- 106/1993
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 9
- Keywords:
- Glass
