25th July 2011, 07:06 PM
Pretty site! :face-approve:
My limited knowledge of glassworking is that you do need a fair amount of heat, but the whole process can be done in a very small crucible, so the heat source doesn't need to be big, just fairly intense, a small bowl furnace would be fine for knocking out beads etc, the thing you've been digging would satisfy the need for milk bottles for a small town! Annoyingly haven't currently got access to the right books so can't chuck processes, temperatures etc at you.
My personal excavation experience of glassworking is primarily post-med, bigger scale and always seems to involve bleeding knees/other bits - any of that on site? Any bits of glass waste in the soil samples, drips, those stringy bits whatever they're called etc?
My limited knowledge of glassworking is that you do need a fair amount of heat, but the whole process can be done in a very small crucible, so the heat source doesn't need to be big, just fairly intense, a small bowl furnace would be fine for knocking out beads etc, the thing you've been digging would satisfy the need for milk bottles for a small town! Annoyingly haven't currently got access to the right books so can't chuck processes, temperatures etc at you.
My personal excavation experience of glassworking is primarily post-med, bigger scale and always seems to involve bleeding knees/other bits - any of that on site? Any bits of glass waste in the soil samples, drips, those stringy bits whatever they're called etc?