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1 The Hamwic Glass 2 3 The Hamwic Glass by J R Hunter and M P Heyworth with contributions by W Fletcher, J Henderson, D C W Sanderson, S E Warren and D Whithorn CBA Research Report 116 Council for British Archaeology 1998 4 Published 1998 by the Council for British Archaeology Bowes Morrell House,111 Walmgate,York YO1 9WA Copyright (cid:211)Authors and Council for British Archaeology All rights reserved British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue for this book is available from the British Library ISSN 0141 7819 ISBN 1 872414 87 7 Typeset from authors’ disks by Calderdale Typesetting Limited,Ripponden,West Yorkshire Printed by Pennine Printing Services Limited,Ripponden,West Yorkshire Front: Fragment of vessel glass with red streaking and applied reticella rod containing opaque yellow spirals Back: Collection of coloured glass fragments 5 Contents List of plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii List of figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii List of tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Summaries in English,French and German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x 1. The background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. The material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1 Palm cup/funnel beaker vessel series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Other vessel types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3 Decorated,non-diagnostic fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.4 Non-diagnostic fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.5 Window glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.6 Beads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.7 Wasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.8 Non-durable fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. Vessel quantification analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4. Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.1 Red glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.2 Streaked glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.3 Trails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.4 Light blue/green glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 5. Compositional Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5.1 X-ray fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5.2 Neutron activation analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.3 Inductively coupled plasma spectrometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 5.3.1 Palm cup/funnel beaker vessel series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5.3.2 Other vessel types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 6 5.3.3 Decorated,non-diagnostic vessel body fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 5.3.4 Non-diagnostic vessel body fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 5.3.5 Window fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 5.4 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 6. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 6.1 Contextual significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 6.2 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Appendix One Colour measurement of the Hamwic glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Appendix Two Scientific analysis of the Hamwic glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Appendix Three Electron microprobe analysis of the Hamwic glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Catalogue of Hamwic glass items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Index by Peter Rea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 List of plates 1 Reticella fragments,from left to right:(top) 14 304,38 108,7 28;(middle) 11 171,32 502,38 108;(bottom) 169 1185,24 555,24 552 2 Reticella rim fragments,from left to right:(top) 169 2801,24 501,14 259;(middle) 169 1402, 14 287,169 468;(bottom) 169 1662,36 330 3 Tubular rims,from left to right:(top) 36 326,169 553,24 466;(bottom) 24 487,24 580,24 462 4 Decorated rims,from left to right:(top) 14 303,169 13,177 649,177 281;(second row) 24 447,169 398,35 35,169 525;(third row) 30 419,7 33,36 5,24 526;(fourth row) 169 880,169 3058,24 509,30 57;(bottom) 177 191,177 619,177 498 5 Decorated body fragments,from left to right:(top) 36 331,169 1390,6 24,38 105;(second row) 99 96,169 1654,24 510;(third row) 26 542,169 132,24 481;(fourth row) 169 990,24 554,24 547,8 11;(bottom) 36 1,24 420,24 582 6 Pushed bases,from left to right:39 117,36 7,169 889 7 Palm/funnel bases,from left to right:(top) 177670,169 1007;(middle) 32 503,177 816,36 333;(bottom) 24 426,11 154,32 498 8 Decorated fragments,including rims,from left to right:(top) 30 112,169 2136,31 564;(sec- ond row) 31 533,24 546,26 198;(third row) 11 158,169 770,26 600;(bottom) 11 163,15 460,169 2999 vii List of figures 1 Location of sites mentioned in the text 2 Location of Hamwic sites (SOU numbers) within modern Southampton 3 Generalised glass types alluded to in the text (after Ypey 1963 and Näsman 1990):(a) tall beaker (b) claw beaker (c) squat jar (d) bowl (Valsgärde type) (e–g) palm cup types (h– j) developing funnel beaker types 4 Palm/Funnel series.Tubular rim types 5 Palm/Funnel series.Tubular rim types 6 Palm/Funnel series.Tubular rim without cavity types 7 Palm/Funnel series.Rounded rim types with some examples exhibiting reticella rims 8 Palm/Funnel series.Rounded rim types with some examples exhibiting reticella rims 9 Palm/Funnel series.Some decorated examples 10 Palm/Funnel series.Substantially surviving examples 11 Palm/Funnel series.Base fragments 12 Palm/Funnel series.Base fragments 13 Other vessel types 14 Other vessel types 15 Other vessel types.Jar bases.Decorated non-diagnostic fragments 16 Decorated,non-diagnostic fragments 17 Decorated,non-diagnostic fragments (top),window fragments (bottom) 18 Beads and spacers 19 Histogram showing two colour groups within the Hamwic glass 20 Scattergram showing iron and manganese contents of lightly tinted glasses 21 Iron:manganese oxide ratio for lightly tinted glass fragments using EDXRF data 22 Scattergram showing Sb and Cs contents for glass from NW Europe (from Sanderson and Hunter 1982) 23 Discriminant analysis showing the distinction between the compositions of the late Roman vessel glass from Winchester and the early medieval vessel glass from Hamwic 24 Scatterplot of cerium against chromium for early medieval window glass fragments from Hamwic,Winchester and Repton viii

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