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Front cover images:
Top left: early Anglo-saxon claw beaker, 5th/6th century, ringlemere farm, Kent; London, British Museum, 2005,1205.1. Top right:
Late sasanian rhyton, 6th/7th century, Amlash(?), Iran; London, British Museum, 1972,0516.2. Bottom left: early Byzantine lamp,
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Late roman gold-glass from the Wilshere collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
contents
Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................................................................v
List of Contributors ............................................................................................................................................................... vi
1
Glass from the later irst millennium AD: current state of research..............................................................................1
Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Jackson
2
The last roman glass in Britain: recycling at the periphery of the empire...................................................................6
Caroline Jackson and Harriet Foster
3
Opaque yellow glass production in the early medieval period: new evidence ...........................................................15
James R. N. Peake and Ian C. Freestone
4
The vessel glass assemblage from Anglo-saxon occupation at West heslerton, North Yorkshire .............................22
Rose Broadley
5
glassworking at Whitby Abbey and Kirkdale Minster in North Yorkshire.................................................................32
Sarah Paynter, Sarah Jennings† and Jennifer Price
6
Glass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the irst millennium AD as hints of
a changing land use – including some results of the chemical analyses of glass from Mayen ..................................43
Martin Grünewald and Sonngard Hartmann
7
campanulate bowls from Gallaecia: evidence for regional glass production in late antiquity ..................................58
Mário da Cruz
8
The Wilshere collection of late roman gold-glass at the Ashmolean Museum, university of Oxford .....................68
Susan Walker
9
The “proto-history” of Venetian glassmaking ..............................................................................................................73
David Whitehouse†
10
Late roman glass from south Pannonia and the problem of its origin ......................................................................79
Mia Leljak
11
glass supply and consumption in the late roman and early Byzantine site dichin, northern Bulgaria ....................83
Thilo Rehren and Anastasia Cholakova
12
An early christian glass workshop at 45, Vasileos Irakleiou street in the centre of Thessaloniki.............................95
Anastassios Ch. Antonaras
Contents
13
Glass tesserae from Hagios Polyeuktos, Constantinople: their early Byzantine afiliations .....................................114
Nadine Schibille and Judith McKenzie
14
successors of rome? Byzantine glass mosaics .........................................................................................................128
Liz James
15
glass from the Byzantine Palace at ephesus in Turkey ............................................................................................137
Sylvia Fünfschilling
16
Late roman and early Byzantine glass from Heliopolis/Baalbek .............................................................................147
Hanna Hamel and Susanne Greiff
17
Changes in glass supply in southern Jordan in the later irst millennium AD ..........................................................162
Susanne Greiff and Daniel Keller
18
egyptian glass abroad: hIMT glass and its markets..................................................................................................177
Marie-Dominique Nenna
19
continuity and change in Byzantine and early Islamic glass from Syene/Aswan and elephantine, egypt ..............194
Daniel Keller
20
sasanian glass: an overview .......................................................................................................................................200
St John Simpson
6
Glass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the irst
millennium AD as hints of a changing land use – including some
results of the chemical analyses of glass from Mayen
Martin Grünewald and Sonngard Hartmann
Introduction
This paper is a result of two areas of research carried out
in the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM),
the Forschungsbereich Vulkanologie, Archäologie und
Technikgeschichte in Mayen (VAT) and the Kompetenzzentrum
für Archäometrie in Mainz (archaeometry). Through
mapping the distribution of glass workshops in northern Gaul
and the Rhineland in the irst millennium AD, some links
with the changes in land use can be established (cf. project
of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft “Zur Landnutzung
im Umfeld eines römischen ‘Industriereviers’”, FI 805/6-1).
A large number of glass vessels found in late antique graves
Fig. 6.1: Glass workshops from the irst millennium AD between the Rhine and the English Channel. Circles indicate either doubtful
workshops or workshops not precisely datable to the periods of study (Martin Grünewald, graphic conversion Vera Kassühlke, RGZM).
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at Mayen have been studied by Martin Grünewald (VAT, see
Grünewald 2011), and chemical analyses of the glass were
undertaken by Susanne Greiff and Sonngard Hartmann at the
RGZM (archaeometry). The analyses of 62 well dated glass
fragments have made it possible to identify two different
groups: one with a traditional Roman composition and
another, usually called HIMT glass, which is characterized
by higher levels of iron, manganese, and titanium. Together
with a positive correlation of these elements it indicates
the use of sands from sources different from the traditional
Roman composition. The HIMT glass also has higher levels
of sodium and magnesium than the Roman composition.
This overview presents the glass workshops attested in
the regions between the Rhine and the English Channel
during the irst millennium AD. A preliminary article about
the irst half of the irst millennium AD has already been
published (Grünewald and Hartmann 2010), and the maps
in the earlier article have been adjusted for this paper. More
than 70 glass workshops in the region have been recognised
from inds of furnaces, crucibles or working waste. In
addition, sites marked by circles on Fig. 6.1 are further
workshops, not deinitely dated to the irst millennium, as,
for example, Höxter-Corvey. Recent research suggests that
Kordel (Landkreis Trier-Saarburg/Germany) dates from the
12th or 13th century (Clemens 2012, 40) rather than from
the Roman or early medieval periods, so it has not been
included. In other cases, the evidence is not suficient for
production sites to be identiied, as at Winningen (Kiessel
2009, 377–378, ig. 168) and Martberg (Nickel et al. 2008,
181, no. 03.02.018.01 and 188, no. 03.02.164.01), where
scoriae have been found.
The beginning of Roman glass workshops
There was huge production of glass bracelets and beads in
the region in the Latène period (Wagner 2006), but until
the beginning of the 1st century, glass vessels were nearly
unknown, although some have been found in southern
France, Portugal and Spain (Feugère 1989, 29–62) and in
the region north of the Alps, as at Manching (Landkreis
Pfaffenhofen/Germany) and Basel/Switzerland (Feugère
and Gebhard 1995, 504–511 with further references).
Apart from a very few examples, such as the fragment
of a core-formed vessel from Preist (4th or 3rd century
BC, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm/Germany; Zeitler 1990, 64;
Nortmann 2012, 15), the irst vessels were brought to the
region from Italy by Roman soldiers. Almost all of the glass
in the region in the Iron Age were beads and bracelets. The
distribution of these objects hints at regional production of
glass jewellery, for example in the Lower Rhine area and
the Main-Rhine-region (Haevernick 1981, 299–301; Wagner
2006, 147–153; Gebhard 2010, 10–11). Wagner (2006, 39)
suggests that glass working was concentrated in oppida and
other important Celtic settlements. Raw glass is known from
several Celtic contexts, as at Bad Nauheim and Manching
Fig. 6.2: Glass workshops from the 1st century (Martin Grünewald, graphic conversion Vera Kassühlke, RGZM).
6 Glass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the irst millennium AD
(Wagner 2006, 35–36). Wagner has also suggested Celtic
raw glass production using regional sands and halophytes,
but the chemical analyses of Celtic glass from Zarten
(Landkreis Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald) do not show any
evidence for a use of organic alkali (Andreas Burkhardt in
Wagner 2006, 324).
From the 1st century onwards (Fig. 6.2), glass workshops
producing vessels are known in northern Gaul and the
Rhineland. The irst Roman workshops were established in
Cologne Eigelstein and Cologne Praetorium in the second
quarter of the 1st century (Follmann-Schulz 1991, 35–36;
Höpken and Schäfer 2006, 74–77). The pillar-moulded
or non-blown ribbed bowl (Isings 1957, 17–21, form 3)
is very common in the 1st century, and fragments found
in Eigelstein may indicate that the form was produced
there (Höpken and Schäfer 2006, 77, ig. 6). Signiicantly,
nearly all 1st century workshops between the Rhine and the
English Channel are situated in major urban centres such as
Cologne and Amiens and in the legionary fortresses, as at
Bonn and Nijmegen (Follmann-Schulz 1991, 36–37). The
demand for glass was concentrated in the areas inhabited
by soldiers from the Mediterranean and other wealthy
Romanised glass users.
The civil character of the settlement and the indigenous
burial customs may explain why comparatively few of the
glass vessels known from Mayen graves belong to this early
period. Among these, two dark blue fragments have been
examined analytically. Their glass owes its intense blue
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colour to the high content of cobalt (CoO 0.14 and 0.18%),
and one of the two fragments has a high iron content (Fig.
6.5, left). Cobalt is a well-known colouring agent for blue
glass in 1st century, when brightly coloured glass was often
used (Fischer 2008, 83). Neither of the dark blue fragments
has a signiicantly high content of decolorant such as
antimony. One explanation might be that the raw glass has
been intended to be used as coloured glass (cf. Jackson et
al. 2009, 154) and therefore no intentional effort was made
to decolourise the glass.
Glass workshops in the 2nd and 3rd centuries
In the 2nd and 3rd centuries (Fig. 6.3) more glass workshops
are known, as at Treves, but the overall distribution pattern
does not change. In Gaul some glass workshops were sited
in secondary and rural settlements, but none are known
outside the larger settlements and castra in the Rhine region.
The principal workshops in the northwestern provinces of
the Roman empire were established in Cologne (Höpken
and Schäfer 2006, 74–85). Certain vessels decorated with
coloured threads (e.g. Harden et al. 1988, 124), for example,
are well represented in the cemeteries of Cologne and are
assumed to have been made in the city. From the 1st to the
3rd centuries most glass workshops of the Rhineland were
sited in the political and economic centres. The majority
of glass vessels were made of blue-green glass typical
Fig. 6.3: Glass workshops from the 2nd and 3rd centuries (Martin Grünewald, graphic conversion Vera Kassühlke, RGZM).
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for the 2nd and 3rd centuries with the traditional Roman
composition with relatively low iron content, below or
around 0.6% (e.g. Foster and Jackson 2009, 190, table 1:
0.62% Fe). Among the mostly naturally coloured blue-green
or greenish/bluish fragments analysed from Mayen, there
seems to be no other glass composition until the 4th century.
Subgroups of the traditional Roman composition have
been suggested for northern Gaul and the Rhineland. Based
on analyses of glass in the Rhineland, Komp (2009, 216)
has suggested seven groups of Roman glass production,
though the sources have not been located. Further analyses
of better dated objects may show whether those groups
have chronological signiicance as discussed by Komp for
her group 4 (1st century) and group 1 (late antiquity, Komp
2009, 202 see below). A group of Belgian glass vessels
dating from the second half of the 1st and beginning of
2nd century with a composition different from Levantine I,
Egypt I and HIMT was published by Fontaine-Hodiament
and Wouters (2002). In isotopic analyses of glass associated
with a 2nd century furnace in Tienen (Belgium) the Nd
signature shows a source of primary glass production in
the western Mediterranean or northern Europe (Ganio et al.
2012, 752). According to British and French researchers the
other raw glass groups mentioned were produced in Egypt
and Levantine. Using the Strontium values, the current
discussion favours Sinai as the provenance for HIMT glass
(Freestone et al. 2005).
There is no direct archaeological evidence for local raw
glass production in the irst centuries in northern Gaul and
the Rhineland. Elsewhere in the northwestern provinces,
however, objects from the different stages of raw glass
production are known from e.g. Sulzburg (Landkreis
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald/Germany) and York (United
Kingdom) (Martin-Kilcher et al. 1979, 187; Jackson et al.
2003).
Late antique glass workshops (end of 3rd to mid
5th century)
In late antiquity numerous glass vessels were produced in
minor and rural settlements as well as in major towns (cf.
Louis and Gazenbeek 2011, 36 for northeastern Gaul). The
number of known glass workshops increases from eleven
to 23 at this time (Fig. 6.4). It is signiicant that many
of the glass workshops were set up in regions with poor
soil quality, as in the Hambach Forest (Landkreis Düren/
Germany; Brüggler 2009, 6) and in the upland areas in
the Eifel. In many of the late antique rural settlements of
the Eifel region there is evidence for metal working (Luik
1999, 215), in contrast to the agricultural activity of earlier
periods. In the Eifel (Landkreis Daun/Germany) there is
a signiicant decline in the formation of rural settlements
and after the second half of the 3rd century only the more
Fig. 6.4: Glass workshops from late antiquity (Martin Grünewald, graphic conversion Vera Kassühlke, RGZM).
6 Glass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the irst millennium AD
fertile soils were used for cultivation (Henrich 2006, 117).
The economic base of the former villae rusticae changed
from the 3rd to the 4th century. At the same time, there
was a rise in the exports of the Eifel pottery industry e.g.
in Mayen (Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz/Germany; Redknap
1999, 133–138; Glauben et al. 2009, 137–138; Hunold 2012,
293–297). The pottery, metal and glass workshops in this
region all needed a plentiful supply of wood.
Between the 1st and the 3rd centuries the Hambach Forest
area was used for agricultural purposes (Brüggler 2009,
208–209). Between c. AD 50 and c. AD 220 there was a
peak of grain pollen, as at Jülicher Börde, while in later
periods, and speciically at the beginning of the 5th century,
agricultural use of the land in this area had nearly stopped.
At the same time the forested areas expanded (Bunnik
1995, 344–345; Fischer et al. 2005, 306, 309–313). A
similar pattern has also been recorded for the Eifel. In these
regions, the analyses show a signiicant increase of the beech
pollen counts in late antiquity (Hunold and Sirocko 2009,
146). The increasing availability of wood may have been a
reason for the establishing of the glass workshops in regions
where agriculture was no longer proitable and forests were
regenerating. The climatic conditions in late antiquity, with
cooler summers, may have been less suitable for agriculture
(Büntgen et al. 2011, 581). Thus, the distribution pattern
of glass workshops and the changes in land use seem to be
related to climatic decline.
In the Hambach Forest a large workshop with several
production sites in former villae has been located (Brüggler
2009, 226–227). The graves belonging to this community
make it possible to date the workshop to the 4th and 5th
centuries. Chemical analyses of the glass shows signiicantly
high iron values for some objects although others have the
traditional Roman composition. This was interpreted as
an argument for local raw glass production by Wedepohl
(Follmann-Schulz et al. 2000, 134), but according to
Freestone and others these high iron values occur in many
late antique glasses (HIMT glass) in different regions of
the Roman empire (Freestone et al. 2005). However, by
contrast with the HIMT glass from e.g. Mayen, the material
from Hambach does not show a distinct correlation between
iron and titanium (Fig. 6.5). According to Wedepohl
(Follmann-Schulz et al. 2000) the higher vanadium values
and similarities between the elements of the sand of the
local river Rur and the glass from Hambach provide an
additional argument for raw glass production in Hambach.
In more recent publications these arguments are discussed as
a sign of a more regional glass production in late antiquity,
which may suggest increased use of local raw materials
(group 1 according to Komp 2009, 179). In this connection
it is noteworthy that the furnaces and crucibles in Hambach
were heated to a temperature of c. 1100° C (Brüggler and
Daszkiewicz 2004, 806, 817) which is necessary for raw
glass production but not glass working. In summary, there
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are some hints, but no compelling evidence, for raw glass
production in Hambach (Brüggler 2009, 86–90).
Unlike much of the Mediterranean region, there was a
plentiful supply of wood in northern Gaul and the Rhineland,
which would have assisted production of raw glass. Many
late antique glass workshops were sited in woodlands.
The amount of wood needed to produce raw glass was
deinitely higher (50kg wood for 1kg raw glass, according
to Brüggler 2009, 215), than to remelt it. Glass working
is possible at temperatures from 630°C and higher, while
raw glass production needs temperatures higher than c.
1100°C (Brüggler and Daszkiewicz 2004, 806, 817), and
the transport of wood to the workshops would have been
expensive.
The changes in the distribution pattern of the glass
workshops and the change in the range of forms of glass
vessels (van Lith and Randsborg 1985, 463; Brüggler 2005,
155) may be contemporary with the introduction of the new
HIMT composition (cf. Freestone et al. 2005) of glass in the
4th century, and this is considered for Britain by Jackson and
Foster (this volume). The chemical analyses of closely dated
glass vessels from the cemetery of Mayen show that some
vessels from the last third of the 4th century to the second
half of the 5th century were made with the new HIMT
composition (Fig. 6.6), and it can be demonstrated that
regional vessel forms such as conical beakers with diagonal
ribs and cylindrical lasks with funnel mouths (Isings 1957,
127–129, 160–161, forms 106b, 132; Grünewald 2012) were
only made of the HIMT composition (Fig. 6.5). Production
at Hambach is suggested for the barrel jug (Isings 1957, 158,
form 128) from Mayen, because of the basal design with
ECVA (Fig. 6.5). A base fragment with an identical design
was found in a pit near a glass furnace in Hambach 111
(Follmann et al. 2000, 124). Local manufacture of vessels
in the region of Mayen is suggested by the distribution
pattern of regional glass types (Grünewald 2011, 191–194;
Grünewald and Hartmann 2010, 18–20).
Merovingian glass workshops (second half of the
5th to irst half of the 8th century)
In the Merovingian period (Fig. 6.7) only a few glass
workshops are known and their distribution pattern is
dificult to interpret. The production sites at Macquenoise
and Hasselsweiler (Päffgen and Wedepohl 2004, 840–842)
may point to continuity of glass working in rural landscapes,
close to their Roman predecessors. In many cases only
the production of glass beads has been documented, as at
Wijnaldum and Rijnsburg, to the north of the mapped area
(Götzen 1999, 48). There is strong continuity with late
antiquity, and signiicant reduction of vessel types such
as beakers, bowls and tumblers. The contrast between the
relatively large number of late antique workshops and the
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Fig. 6.5: Comparison of Mayen and Hambach compositions (FeO/TiO2) with highlighted typical vessels (Sonngard Hartmann, RGZM).
Fig. 6.6: Mayen glass with different compositions over timeline (Sonngard Hartmann, RGZM).
small number of Merovingian workshops is paralleled by a
general reduction of glass use and is not simply a relection
of the current state of research.
Merovingian glass compositions in the Rhineland are
known from sites like Hasselsweiler and Gellep (Päffgen
and Wedepohl 2004, 842–847; Wedepohl et al. 1997).
To some extent they are similar to the late Roman HIMT
composition but there seems to be wider variation than
during the late Roman period, as it has been shown when
comparing the iron values of the later Gellep and the Roman
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Fig. 6.7: Glass workshops from the Merovingian period (Martin Grünewald, graphic conversion Vera Kassühlke, RGZM).
Fig. 6.8: Glass workshops from the Carolingian period and the end of the irst millennium AD (Martin Grünewald, graphic conversion
Vera Kassühlke, RGZM).
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Mayen compositions (Grünewald and Hartmann 2010, 22,
ig. 14). Recent analyses show that the glass from the second
half of the 5th century (Fig. 6.6) found in Mayen is also
of HIMT composition. Only two later Merovingian objects
from Mayen were made in a different type of soda-limeglass. In general Merovingian glass compositions seem to
be similar to the main group of Roman soda-lime-glass. The
existence and importance of the production of this raw glass
in the Roman and Merovingian periods in the northwestern
provinces is still under discussion (Zimmermann 2011,
109–124).
Carolingian and later glass workshops (second
half of the 8th to 10th century)
Carolingian glass workshops (Fig. 6.8) have been found
in religious and political centres such as palatinates and
monasteries like Lorsch, Aachen and Fulda (Päffgen 2003,
20–23; Giertz and Ristow 2013; Wedepohl 2003). An
important example is known in the well-dated palatinate
at Paderborn of the end of the 8th century. A secondary
workshop using late soda-lime-glass is attested there as well
as glass objects made of wood ash glass, a new composition
in which potassium substitutes sodium as the alkali. The
new glass composition has been thought to be related to
dificulties in the importation of soda or soda-lime raw
glass from the east after the confrontation between the
Carolingians and the Arabs (Stephan and Wedepohl 1997,
706), but the Arabs also used a different glass composition
with plantash after this time (Freestone 2006, 203). Hence
it is more likely that the demand for natron outstripped the
supply because the changed climatic conditions caused no
new soda to be formed in e.g. Wadi Natrun. This shortfall
may have been further accentuated by the increased scale
of glass production at this period (Freestone et al. 2006,
521–530). The demand in the monasteries and palatinates
for e.g. window panes might explain a change in the
distribution pattern, the glass workshops returning to the
economic centres. An improvement in climate connected
with increased use of land for agriculture is also signiicant
at this time (Schreg 2009, 157–158; Bunnik 1995, 345).
with demand and resources such as the materials for
production and the wood for iring the furnaces. Comparison
with other workshops with high consumption of wood for
fuel, such as pottery or metal production, and the similarity of
the distribution patterns of those workshops in late antiquity
may indicate a connection with changing land use and have
close links with climatic change. In late antiquity and the
Merovingian period there was climatic deterioration, and a
similar phenomenon is well known from AD 1300 until 1850
during the little Ice Age (Alt and Sirocko 2009, 170). In both
periods secondary glass workshops were far removed from
the economic centres (see Clemens and Steppuhn 2012, with
further literature about later glass workshops).
A long list of ind spots with hints of glass working, which
at the current stage of research cannot be either interpreted or
dated exactly, are also listed in the catalogue and shown on
Fig. 6.1. More knowledge about those glass workshops will
probably change the present picture. Furthermore the current
overview does not provide an answer to the question of where
the raw glass used in Gaul and the Rhineland was produced.
Further research will be necessary to explore these issues.
Catalogue of glass workshops of the irst
millennium AD between the Rhine and the
English Channel
Question marks (?) indicate either doubtful workshops
or workshops not precisely datable to the period. The
workshops of Evreux (départment Eure/France), SorelMoussel (départment Eure-et-Loire/France) and Troyes
(départment Aube/France; cf. Foy 2010, 27) are outside
the mapped area (Fig. 6.1). Further evidence for glass
workshops in Germany have also been found in Augsburg,
Haithabu (Landkreis Schleswig-Flensburg), HiddenhausenOetinghausen (Landkreis Herford), Gross Köris-Klein
Köris (Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald), Mühlberg (Landkreis
Gotha) and Oldendorf-Melle (Landkreis Osnabrück; cf.
Päffgen 2003, 13, 21).
Glass workshops from the 1st century
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Summing up
The Carolingian renaissance is comparable to the 1st century
in the concentration of glass working sites in economic
centres. A different distribution pattern is common in the
later medieval period, starting in the 12th–14th centuries,
which may be in some respects comparable to late antiquity.
There are many different reasons for the changing patterns of
distribution of glass working in the irst millennium AD. The
siting of the workshops is a complex phenomenon connected
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Aachen, Minoriten-Grosskölnstraße (Germany)?: the
traces of glass working mentioned by van Geesbergen
(1999, 120) are probably connected with metal working,
because the chemical analyses of nine small crucibles
indicated processing of nonferrous metal (Strauch 1996,
96; Keller 2004, 44).
Amiens, rue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny (départment Somme/France): remains of inished products and
working waste; end of 1st century (van Geesbergen
1999, 117; Foy and Nenna 2001, 47).
Bavay (départment Nord/France): furnace (van Geesbergen 1999, 117; Foy and Nenna 2001, 47).
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Bonn (Germany): three complexes each with two furnaces,
glass working waste, limestone mould fragments from
the production of square bottles (Isings 1957, 63–67,
form 50). The glass furnaces were abandoned during
the last third of the 1st century (Follmann-Schulz 1991,
36; Follmann-Schulz 2010, 235–237).
Cologne, Eigelstein 14 (Germany): more than ive
furnaces, glass working waste; Cologne, Praetorium
(Germany): three furnaces (Follmann-Schulz 1991,
35–36; Höpken and Schäfer 2006, 74–77).
Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim (Germany)?: early
chemical analyses suggest that one of three crucibles
may have been used for glass working. Comparison
with more recent analyses shows that the chemical
composition is not a conclusive argument for glass
working (Roller 1957, 60–61; Ulbert 1969, 57–58, pl.
61.8–10).
Nijmegen (Netherlands): fragments of glass and pottery,
glass scoriae; 1st century (Follmann-Schulz 1991, 37).
Reims (départment Marne/France): glass working waste,
such as raw glass, glass drops, etc. (Cabart 2003, 44).
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Aspelt (Kanton Esch-sur-Alzette/Luxembourg): crucible
(Niederbieber 104), furnace, but it is unclear whether
this was used for glass working (Dövener 2003, 44).
Bermont (Moiremont, départment Meuse/France)?:
possible crucibles may indicate glass working (Gazenbeek 2003, 293).
Bonn (Germany): two fragments of crucibles (Niederbieber 104) probably indicate glass working in the 3rd
century (Follmann-Schulz 1991, 37).
Cologne, Eigelstein 35–39 (Germany): eleven furnaces,
raw glass, glass working waste; Cologne, Helenenstraße:
furnace with three parts, basin, crucible, glass working
waste; Cologne, Gereonstraße: raw glass, fragments of
furnace; Marienburg: raw glass deposit for production
of melon beads (Höpken and Schäfer 2006, 83).
Krefeld (Germany): small glass furnace, probably for
production of coloured glass jewellery (Reichmann
1995, 132).
Lavoye, La Clairière (départment Meuse/France):
furnace of the second half of the 3rd century (Polfer
2005, 125; Gazenbeek 2003, 293 mentioned seven
further furnaces without dating in Lavoye and several
pits with crucibles of the 2nd and 3rd centuries in two
nearby indspots in Argonne: Verrières, La Haie-Guérin
and Varennes, La Gruerie).
Liberchies (Pont-à-Celles, province Hainaut/Belgium):
crucibles, glass working waste, fragments of furnaces
covered with melted glass; AD 180 to 260 (van Geesbergen 1999, 118; van Geesbergen 2000, 3; Hanut 2006,
12).
Neuss (Germany): glass working waste; irst half of 2nd
century (Sauer 1991, 560).
Rouen (départment Seine-Maritime/France): some
evidence for glass working in the 3rd century (Foy and
Nenna 2001, 53).
Tirlemont (Tienen, province Vlaams-Brabant/Belgium):
furnace, raw glass; 2nd century (Hanut 2006, 12).
Treves, Hohenzollernstraße (Germany): fragments of
crucibles; 2nd century and 3rd to early 4th century (cf.
late antique workshops, Goethert-Polaschek 2011, 106).
Treves, Hopfengarten, Heiligkreuz (Germany): furnace
for crucible, annealing furnace, crucible; black glass
with high iron content may be an evidence for production
of jewellery; second half of 2nd century (Pfahl 2000,
53–54; Goethert-Polaschek 2012, 25).
Xanten (Germany): some evidence for a glass workshop;
2nd or 3rd century (pers. comm. Bernd Liesen).
Glass workshops from late antiquity (end of 3rd
until mid 5th century)
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Aachen, region of the cloister of the Münster (Germany)?:
fragment of crucible; probably 4th century (Päffgen
2003, 10; Päffgen and Wedepohl 2004, 837).
Alzey (Germany): two fragments of crucible (Alzey 27),
glass cullet for recycling; mid 5th century (Oldenstein
2009, 219–220).
Bitburg (Germany): fragments of crucibles; 4th century
(van Geesbergen 1999, 120).
Bollendorf (Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm/Germany): crucibles,
raw glass (Steinhausen 1932, 51; Luik 1999, 215).
Clermont-en-Argonne (départment Meuse/France)?:
crucibles, waste, wall of furnace, the late antique dating
is not surely attested (Polfer 2005, 72).
Cologne near Waidmarkt (Germany): two fragments of
crucibles. Kattenbug: fragment of crucible (Höpken and
Schäfer 2006, 84).
Florange-Daspich (départment Moselle/France): a
crucible covered with melted glass inside probably
indicates a workshop in late antiquity (Polfer 2005,
123–124).
Goch-Asperden (Landkreis Kleve/Germany): two
furnaces, possible blowpipe, glass for recycling, moils,
fragments of crucibles, raw glass chunks, glass waste
indicates the production of vessels as well as jewellery
(black bracelets); around AD 400 and in the irst third
of the 5th century (Brüggler 2008, 110–111; Brüggler
2011).
Hambach (Landkreis Düren/Germany), eight ind spots:
Hambach 59: four to six furnaces. Hambach 75: nine
furnaces, glass working waste, moils, raw glass, glass for
recycling. Hambach 111: three furnaces, glass working
waste, fragment of crucible. Hambach 127: production
waste. Hambach 132: 12 or 13 furnaces, glass working
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waste, fragments of crucibles, moils, glass drops and
threads, glass for recycling, etc. Hambach 382: seven
furnaces, fragments of crucibles. Hambach 488: more
than two furnaces, fragment of crucible. Hambach 500:
two furnaces, crucible (Follmann-Schulz et al. 2000,
153, 162–165, 177–178; Brüggler 2009, especially
65–92, 210–215).
Hontheim, Entersburg (Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich/
Germany): fragments of crucible (Alzey 28), glass
fragments of the 2nd and 3rd centuries for remelting,
pottery fragments mostly dating from the irst half and
mid 4th century (Gilles 1985, 131–133).
Krefeld (Germany)?: fragment of crucible (Alzey 28)
(Follmann-Schulz et al. 2000, 109).
La Chalade/Le Plagneux (départment Meuse/France):
fragments of crucibles may indicate glass working
(Polfer 2005, 143).
Lavoye-Les Tannières (départment Meuse/France):
furnace, crucibles, glass working waste; 3rd to 4th
century (Polfer 2005, 125; further evidence for late
antique glass working: Gazenbeek 2003, 293).
Leudersdorf (Landkreis Vulkaneifel/Germany)?:
fragments of round discs of green, turquoise and reddish
brown glass, intended for use as raw material for mosaics
(Luik 1999, 214–215; Henrich 2006, 84).
Lyons-la-Forêt (départment Eure/France): forty fragments of crucibles with melted glass inside; 3rd and 4th
centuries (Foy and Nenna 2001, 56–57).
Mainz, Bauhofstraße (Germany): glass waste and raw
material; late 3rd and 4th centuries (Witteyer 1999, 11).
Metz, quartier Saint-Marcel (départment Moselle/
France): scoriae, tile covered with melted glass, glass
drops, etc. (van Geesbergen 1999, 117; Foy and Nenna
2001, 56).
Mittelstrimmig (Landkreis Cochem-Zell/Germany):
fragments of crucibles; mid 4th century (van Geesbergen
1999, 121).
Sainte-Menehould-Houis (départment Marne/France):
furnace, fragments of crucibles, glass working waste,
metal tools, material of the 3rd and the 4th centuries
(Gazenbeek 2003, 291; Polfer 2005, 72).
Speyer, Domplatz (Germany): fragments of crucibles,
remains of furnace; irst half of 4th century (Grünwald
1989, 42–43).
Titelberg (Kanton Esch-sur-Alzette/Luxembourg): a
few remains of a furnace, crucibles, raw glass, scoriae,
glass drops and threads, etc. Thill (1968, 523) dated
this to the 3rd and beginning of the 4th centuries, but
later production is possible, as some coins on the site
date from the end of the 4th century and some possible
remains of later glass vessel forms are present (Thill
1968, 521–528; Grünewald 2011, 188–190).
Trebur (Kreis Groß-Gerau/Germany): production of
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glass beads is attested by raw glass fragments, a
mould, semi-inished and inished beads of the 4th and
beginning of the 5th century (Knöchlein 2002, 105–114).
Treves, Kesselstadt (Germany): fragments of crucibles,
jewellery (rings) from the irst third of the 4th century
(Goethert-Polaschek 2012, 25).
Treves, Dom (Germany): furnace, fragments of crucibles,
raw glass, probably for production of inlays for opus
sectile wall decoration (Goethert-Polaschek 2011, 107).
Treves, Barbarathermen (Germany): fragments of
crucibles with reddish brown glass inside, probably for
production of inlays for opus sectile wall decoration
(Goethert-Polaschek 2011, 107; 2012, 25).
Treves, south-western neighbourhood (Germany, three
indspots close to each other): Töpferstraße: fragments
of crucible (Speicher 2/Alzey 28), glass waste (GoethertPolaschek 1983, 316, ig. 274a; Goethert 1984, 249;
Goethert-Polaschek 2011, 70).
Treves, Lintzstraße: furnace(?), fragments of crucibles,
fragments of burnt clay covered with melted glass
(Goethert-Polaschek 1983, 316, ig. 274b; Goethert
1984, 249; Goethert-Polaschek 2011, 72–76).
Treves, Hohenzollernstraße: two furnaces from the end
of 3rd to beginning of 4th century and after the mid 4th
century respectively, remains of older furnaces from
the end of 3rd century, fragments of crucibles from the
second half of 3rd to mid 4th century, glass working
waste, raw glass, moils, drops, threads, etc. (GoethertPolaschek 2011, 76–143; 2012, 19–24).
Worms (Germany): furnace, glass working waste, two
fragments of crucibles (Päffgen and Wedepohl 2004,
836; Grünewald and Vogt 2001, 18–20).
Glass workshops from the Merovingian period
(second half of the 5th until irst half of the 8th
century)
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Cologne, Heumarkt (Germany): two furnaces, fragments
of glass vessels, production of vessels and beads is
attested (Päffgen 2003, 18; Päffgen and Trier 2001, 27).
Hasselsweiler (Landkreis Düren/Germany): fragments of
glass vessels, fragments of two crucibles; second half
of 5th century (Päffgen and Wedepohl 2004, 840).
Huy, Aux ruelles and rue Sous-le-Château (province
Liège/Belgium): remains of four furnaces, many
crucibles, glass working waste such as glass drops,
threads, etc.; mid 5th to mid 6th century (de Bernardy
de Sigoyer et al. 2005, 29–33; Fontaine 2005, 72–73).
Maastricht, Jodenstraat (province Limburg/Netherlands):
fragments of crucibles, glass working waste, production
of glass beads; 6th to 7th century (Päffgen 2003, 18;
Päffgen and Wedepohl 2004, 841–842).
Macquenoise (near Chimay, province Hainaut/Belgium):
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two furnaces, fragments of crucibles, production of
beakers dating c. AD 530–580/610 (Päffgen 2003, 18;
Päffgen and Wedepohl 2004, 842).
Saint-Denis (départment Seine-Saint-Denis/France):
fragments of crucibles found in the waste near the
Merovingian cemetery (Foy and Nenna 2001, 58).
Treves (Germany)?: mapped by Päffgen and Wedepohl
2004, 841.
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Glass workshops from the Carolingian period and
the end of the irst millennium AD (second half of
the 8th until 10th century)
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Aachen, three indspots in the vicinity of the palatinate:
Büchel-Straße, Dom Quadrum and Hof (Germany): raw
material for gold-glass tesserae, crucibles, raw glass
chunks, tesserae; around AD 800 (Giertz and Ristow
2013).
Cologne (Germany): probable glass furnace; 9th or early
10th century (Päffgen and Trier 2001, 30; Päffgen 2003,
20).
Dorestad (province Utrecht/Netherlands): fragment of
crucible (Päffgen 2003, 23).
Fulda (Germany): melted chunk of blue glass, fragments
of crucible; second half of 8th until second half of 9th
century (Kind et al. 2003, 73–74; Päffgen 2003, 22).
Höxter-Corvey (Germany)?: fragments of crucibles(?),
raw glass (for enamel or glass); 9th to 11th or 12th
century (Stephan and Wedepohl 1997, 676, 706, 715;
Stephan 2000, 349, 791).
Lorsch (Landkreis Bergstraße, Germany): moil, glass
tesserae, Carolingian (Kronz et al. 2002, 50, 60–61, ig.
8.32).
Paderborn (Germany): fragments of furnace covered
with glass, melted glass, glass tesserae; AD 776/777
(Winkelmann 1977, 123–125; Päffgen 2003, 22).
Paris (France): fragments of crucibles; 9th to 10th
century (Foy and Nenna 2001, 59).
Saint-Denis (départment Seine-Saint-Denis/France):
fragments of crucibles with glass inside, scoriae (Foy
and Nenna 2001, 60).
Treves, St. Irminen (Germany): evidence for glass
working: tesserae with gold foil for remelting, painted
fragments of window glass, etc. (Clemens 2001, 48–52;
Päffgen 2003, 20).
Further sites mapped in Fig. 1 which are not
precisely datable to the periods of study
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Aachen, Katschhof (Germany): fragments of three
crucibles may indicate a glass workshop (Strauch 1996,
30; Keller 2004, 44).
Aiseau (province Hainaut/Belgium)?: doubtful fragment
of crucible (van Geesbergen 1999, 119; Polfer (2005,
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25 note 72) excluded this site because of the lack of
evidence for a workshop).
Allieux (Vauquois, départment Meuse/France): furnace,
glass blocks (Gazenbeek 2003, 293; Polfer 2005, 148).
Anthée (province Namur/Belgium)?: glass rods and
powdered remains of glass found in the region of a
Roman villa (van Geesbergen 2000, 3; Brüggler 2009,
218).
Aubréville (départment Meuse/France): furnace
(Gazenbeek 2003, 293 also mentioned further evidence
for glass working at Pont-Verdunois west of Aubréville).
Breuil (départment Marne/France)?: possible crucibles
may indicate glass working (Gazenbeek 2003, 293).
Champion (province Namur/Belgium)?: two furnaces,
the interpretation as glass furnaces is doubtful (van
Geesbergen 2000, 3; Brüggler 2009, 218).
Châtel-Chéhéry (départment Ardennes/France): furnace
and block of glass (Polfer 2005, 139).
Dieulouard-Scarpone (départment Meurthe-et-Moselle/
France)?: doubtful glass working waste (van Geesbergen
1999, 118; Polfer (2005, 25 note 72) excluded this site
because of the lack of evidence for a workshop).
Düren (Germany): fragments of raw glass and furnace,
moils, glass drops and threads, probably Roman (Komp
2010, 73–74).
Froidos-Berthaucourt (départment Meuse/France):
furnace, crucibles (Foy and Nenna (2001, 57) said this
was late antique; Polfer (2005, 125) and Gazenbeek
(2003, 293) have accepted dating in the 3rd century).
Jülich, Kölnstraße (Landkreis Düren/Germany):
fragment of crucible (with different dating: Päffgen and
Wedepohl 2004, 837: 3rd–4th century; Follmann-Schulz
et al. 2000, 112: early type Niederbieber 104, 2nd or
early 3rd century; Perse 1995, 127: without dating).
Lavoye, Parc Saillet (départment Meuse/France):
furnace, fragments of furnace covered with glass,
fragments of crucibles, unknown dating (Polfer 2005,
125; further evidence: Gazenbeek 2003, 293).
Macquenoise (province Hainaut/Belgium)?: crucibles(?),
scoriae, glass working waste, the mould for production
of a grape lask (Isings 1957, 108–109, form 91a)
is a fake; Roman (van Geesbergen 1999, 119; van
Geesbergen 2000, 3).
Marlemont (départment Ardennes/France)?: „quelques
fouilles qui ont déterminé l‘emplacement d‘une verrerie
gallo-romaine“, not mentioned in more recent French
literature (Albot 1906, 210; Götzen 1999, 247).
Maubert-Fontain (départment Ardennes/France)?: traces
of a furnace; Roman (3rd century), not mentioned in
more recent French literature (Albot 1906, 210; Götzen
1999, 246).
Metz (départment Moselle/France)?: glass droplets may
be evidence for glass working; mid 1st to 3rd century
(Foy and Nenna 2001, 53).
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Montaigle (Onhaye, province Namur/Belgium): crucible
covered with block of melted glass (Hanut and Mignon
2012, 263).
Mouzon (départment Ardennes/France): crucibles
(Polfer 2005, 126).
Perl-Borg (Landkreis Merzig-Wadern/Germany):
possible raw glass, glass working waste, fragments of
crucibles, clay and mortar fragments of furnace covered
with melted glass; Roman (Birkenhagen and Wiesenberg
2013, 149–150, 169).
Rivenich (Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich/Germany)?:
glass scoriae and melted glass may indicate glass
working (Polfer 2005, 133).
Rochefort / Jemelle (province Namur/Belgium)?:
furnace, the interpretation as a glass furnace is doubtful
(van Geesbergen 1999, 119; van Geesbergen 2000, 3–4;
Brüggler 2009, 218).
Rouen, abbey Saint Ouen (départment Seine-Maritime/
France): antique furnace, discovered in 1853 (Foy and
Nenna 2001, 60).
Saint-Martin-Longueau (départment Oise/France):
indications of glass workshops (Woimont 1995, 425–
426, no. 587; Polfer 2005, 127).
Senlis (départment Oise/France): Roman furnace (Polfer
2005, 113).
Spangdahlem-Unterm Rohr (Landkreis Bitburg-Prüm/
Germany)?: glass scoriae, Roman and medieval pottery
fragments, glass workshop doubtful (Jahresbericht 1939,
68–69; Polfer 2005, 134).
Utrecht (Netherlands): fragments of crucibles were
found in the Roman camp, but are not stratiied (Isings
1957, 12).
Vermand (départment Aisne/France)?: glass fragments
formerly interpreted as glass working waste (van
Geesbergen 1999, 118; Polfer (2005, 25, note 72)
excluded this site because of the lack of evidence for a
workshop).
Vieux-Moulin, pré Tortu (départment Oise/France):
glass workshop; Roman to medieval (Woimont 1995,
498, no. 674; Polfer 2005, 148).
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the organisers of the conference for
the very friendly support; Daniel Keller, Susanne Greiff,
Julius Grünewald and the reviewer for their suggestions
for this paper.
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