Trace element characterization of medieval and post-medieval glass objects by means of INAA and EPMA

Kunicki-Goldfinger, Jerzy J.; Pańczyk, E.; Dierżanowski, P.; Waliś, L.

doi:10.1007/s10967-008-9507-2

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“…It can be assumed that the results obtained by several laboratories should be more reliable then indicative information about the contents of the oxides calculated for the second group, although Corning archeological reference glasses are not characterized by a metrologically valid procedure. These glasses have been mainly used for estimation of the precision and accuracy of measurements in several investigations of historic glass objects [5, 11, 17, 27, 29, 30, 33–40], because large amounts of elemental concentration data have been published for them [11, 27, 31, 32, 37–40 ] . The contents of the literature values of the oxides used in this study are from Vicenzi [32] who referred to Brill [2] (Table 1).…”

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“…The deficiency of information about the obtained precision and accuracy can be noticed in some reports [ 33 , 40 , 43 ] as well as the lack of identifying the Corning glass used [ 42 ]. In some cases, even when the accuracy and precision were given and discussed in the text, the detailed results of these control measurements were omitted [ 17 , 34 , 35 ].…”

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Critical assessment of the elemental composition of Corning archeological reference glasses by LA-ICP-MS

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Corning archeological reference glasses A, B, C, and D have been made to simulate different historic technologies of glass production and are used as standards in historic glass investigations. In this work, nanoseconds (193, 266 nm) and femtosecond (800 nm) laser ablation were used to study the elemental composition of Corning glasses using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The determined concentrations of 26 oxides (Li2O, B2O3, Na2O, MgO, Al2O3, SiO2, P2O5, K2O, CaO, TiO2, V2O5, Cr2O3, MnO, Fe2O3, CoO, NiO, CuO, ZnO, Rb2O, SrO, ZrO2, SnO2, Sb2O5, BaO, PbO, Bi2O3) are compared with values reported in the literature. Results show variable discrepancies between the data, with the largest differences found for Cr2O3 in Corning A; Li2O, B2O3, and Cr2O3 in Corning B; and MnO, Sb2O5, Cr2O3, and Bi2O3 in Corning C. The best agreement between the measured and literature values was found for Corning D. However, even for this reference, glass re-evaluation of the data was necessary and new values for PbO, BaO, and Bi2O3 are proposed.FigureThe results of Corning glasses obtained by LA-ICP-MS after ablation by different laser wavelenghts presented as the ratios of the measured to the recommended values

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Critical assessment of the elemental composition of Corning archeological reference glasses by LA-ICP-MS

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Regional patterns in medieval European glass composition as a provenancing tool

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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A legacy dataset of 1329 major element analyses of medieval glass (12 th-15 th centuries) has been compiled and analysed for geographical distribution of compositional characteristics. Three regional compositional types may be distinguished using simple elemental plots, associated with glass production in northwestern France, in the region around the Rhine, and in central Europe. Distribution maps are presented to aid interpretation and use of the data. The application of the approach is illustrated through three case studies. Late thirteenth-early fourteenth century medieval stained glass from York Minster (n=91), late fourteenth-century stained glass from New College Oxford (n=79) and a single medieval mirror found in Egypt were analysed using scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive analysis. The York coloured and white glasses were identical and consistent with an origin in NW France. In the late fourteenth century, the coloured glass samples from Oxford were from the Rhenish region, while the white glass is consistent with an origin in NW France or England. The mirror glass from Egypt is of central European origin, and similar mirror glass is known from Italy. The apparent dominance of German mirror production may reflect an advantage of the glass, which is low in iron. The meta-analysis of the legacy data shows significant potential for developing an understanding of the production and movement of medieval glass.

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