Roman glass-making at Coppergate, York? Analytical evidence for the nature of production

Archaeometry

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 435-456

  Jackson, C M ^a   Joyner, L ^a   Booth, C A ^a   Day, P M ^a   Wager, E C W ^a   Kilikoglou, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Crucibles; Glass; Glass making; Inductively coupled plasma spectrometry; Petrographic analysis; Roman; Scanning electron microscopy; X ray diffraction; X ray fluorescence; York

Indexed keywords

CERAMICS; EXCAVATION; GLASS; ROMAN ERA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0141425518     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.00120     Document Type: Article

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