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Roman Furnace Project 2005: Glassworking Phase

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Tank Furnace Photographs   Annealing Oven and Glass Photographs   Glassblowing Photographs

1. Lighting the fire. 2. The first hour.
3. The first hour. 4. The first hour.
5. The first hour. 6. Trying to maintain 100°C.
7. Trying to maintain 100°C. 8. The first evening.
9. The first evening. 10. The build-up of tar by the second day.
11. Baking potatoes! 12. Increasing the temperature.
13. Increasing the temperature. 14. Increasing the temperature.
15. Increasing the temperature. 16. The temperature indicators.
17. Filling the pots with glass. 18. Glass melting in the pot.
19. Flames! 20. Flames!
21. Flames! 22. Flames!
23. Flames! 24. The furnace at about 1050°C and ready for glassblowing.
25. Too much wood and not enough aeration! 26. Too much wood and not enough aeration!.
27. A night shot. 28. The stoke hole.
29. The stoke hole. 30. Flames coming through the open hole at the top of the furnace.
31. The fire within! 32. View through a gathering hole.
33. View through a gathering hole. 34. A build-up of ash(?) around one of the warming holes.
35. The furnace at night. 36. The furnace at night.
37. View through a gathering hole. 38. View through a gathering hole
39. A collar from a gathering hole (furnace-facing side). 40. The stopper for the collar in the previous photograph.
41. The fire going out. 42. The fire going out.
43. The dying embers. 44. The furnace cooling down.

"If you build it, they will come."

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