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Roman Furnace Project 2006: Photographs of Glass Waste

Introduction ('Home')    The Barbecue    Woodpile and Ash Pits    Photographs of Pots

Photographs of Glass Waste    Photographs of Glass Vessels    Photographs of Final Weathering

In 2006 we raked several lumps of waste glass from the pot furnace firing chamber - though not nearly so large as some of those of 2005. We also obtained from sieving some of the ashes a small supply of small pellets (here seen on metric graph paper, with the smallest divisions being 1mm).

Working waste consisting of broken glass and unfinished vessels built up around the marvers and close to the furnaces. These fragments were recycled as cullet on a regular basis.

"If you build it, they will come."

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