Bagot's Park, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, III: Archaeomagnetic Dating Report
Author(s): Paul Linford, C Welch
Study of the remains of glassmaking sites at Bagot’s Park near Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, has revealed the presence of eighteen furnaces dating from the medieval and post-medieval period. As part of an ongoing project to investigate the evolution of glassmaking in the area, the CfA was asked to provide archaeomagnetic dates for the last use of each furnace. Twelve furnaces were excavated and dated in 2000 and 2001 and this work is the subject of two earlier reports (Linford 2001, Linford and Welch 2001). Two new furnace sites were investigated in 2002 and two of the previously sampled furnaces were re-excavated so that more samples could be extracted to improve their dating. The two new furnaces, 17 and 18, proved to have been disturbed by modern agricultural practice and the archaeomagnetic dates are of poor precision. However, it was possible to improve the dating of the two revisited furnaces, 6aBP and 15bBP, in the latter case obtaining a date for a furnace that had previously been undatable. Now that archaeomagnetic date ranges are available for fifteen furnaces, trends in the development of glassmaking at the site begin to emerge.
- Report Number:
- 113/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 46
- Keywords:
- Archaeomagnetism
