Composition of early Eighteenth Century Window Glass from Silkstone, Yorkshire
Author(s): David Dungworth
This report examines early eighteenth-century window glass recovered during the excavation of a seventeenth century glasshouse and eighteenth-century pottery. Two fragments of window glass are high-lime low alkali glass while ten are mixed alkali glass with high strontium contents indicating that they were manufactured using seaweed (kelp).
- Report Number:
- 18/2006
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 6
- Keywords:
- Glass Post Medieval
