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This paper presents the preliminary findings of a long-term project to establish an independent means of provenancing forest glasses. Here we present an overview of the compositional analysis carried out on samples from around England. However, the project will eventually expand to include samples from across north-western Europe and include multi-element isotope analysis. Previous studies have attempted to provenance glass based on compositional analysis and have found characteristic groupings. However a great number of these do not stand close scrutiny when compared to the results of more advanced scientific techniques. This study will be the first to apply multi-isotope analysis to the problem of forest glass provenance.
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Meek, A.S., Henderson, J., Evans, J.A. (2011). North-Western European Forest Glass: Working Towards An Independent Means of Provenance. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_15
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