Useful Materials: a study of 17th century glass from Plymouth Colony using pXRF analysis

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Research on the “Old Colony”: Recent Approaches to Plymouth Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During the 16th and 17th centuries there was a revolution in glass production in England as both people and ideas dispersed through Europe due to political and religious unrest. Glass makers from northern France, Venice, and the Low Countries were brought to England to share their production strategies. As more craftsmen came, there was a change in the raw materials used in glass making which can be measured using a pXRF. This technique enables highly fragmented glass to be dated and identified by measuring specific elemental concentrations in artifacts. This technique has been applied to glass produced from archaeological sites that are associated with the first permanent English colony in Massachusetts.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Research on the “Old Colony”: Recent Approaches to Plymouth Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 719