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Site Name Keywords
Hüti glassworks

Other Keywords
Glass production • conservation laws • Estonia

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Collections Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing • Historic Background Research • Remote Sensing

Material Types
Glass

Temporal Keywords
17th - 19th centuries • Historical Archaeology

Geographic Keywords
Europe (Continent) • Republic of Estonia (Country) • Estonia • Estonia (State / Territory)

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  • Environmental Impact of Glass Production in Post-Medieval Estonia (2023)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Monika Reppo.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass production is and was an industry that exhausts natural resources. The destruction of forests surrounding early post-medieval glassworks in Europe was a given - the glassworks would often simply move to the next spot after depleting their resource of fuel and potash. The extraction of sand also had an environmental impact. The...