Cross-craft interactions between metal and glass working: Slag additions to early Anglo-Saxon red glass

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8422, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Peake, James R N ^a   Freestone, Ian C ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anglo Saxon; beads; black glass; copper; fayalite; kirschsteinite; lead tin yellow; nepheline; red glass; slag

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER SMELTING; INTEGRATED CONTROL; IRON COMPOUNDS; METAL WORKING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SILICATE MINERALS; SLAGS;

ANGLO-SAXON; BEADS; FAYALITE; KIRSCHSTEINITE; LEAD-TIN; NEPHELINE;

GLASS;

EID: 84876435076     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.973765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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