D L Dungworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 6431018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D L Dungworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | D L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dungworth |
| SIGNATURE | DUNGWORTH D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Heritage |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8059-857X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Early medieval iron production at Glenlee, Dumfries and Galloway
In 2020–21, excavations at Glenlee Power Station, near New Galloway, uncovered the remains of an iron bloomery mound (NGR: NX 60607 80411). The site comprised three large working hollows, containing truncated ironworking features, including furnace basal pits, and other clusters of pits, post holes and ditches. Over 450kg of vitrified debris was recovered, containing smelting slag, bloom, plano-convex bases, possible clay tuyère fragments, and ot…
An Iron Age Bloomery Iron-smelting Industry on the Mid Kent Downs
The recent discovery of a Middle to Late Iron Age bloomery iron-smelting site, revealed during archaeological works associated with the M2 Junction 5 improvement scheme in north-west Kent, has highlighted the possibility that the Stockbury Valley was the focus of a substantial ironworking industry during this period. Moreover, the waste slag assemblages recovered from the M2 Junction 5 scheme and several other sites around Stockbury appear to sho…
Park Glasshouse, Birmingham — a Site of 19th-Century Innovation
In 2020 excavations took place on the site of the former Park Glasshouse, Birmingham, established in 1788, and subsequently the location of the Baker and Allen German Silver Works, opened in 1895. Sufficient of the glasshouse survived to enable several phases of development to be identified, one of which involved the installation, trialling and adoption c. 1860 of what then was an innovative Siemens gas regenerator that considerably improved the …
The Thames Plate Glass Company, Leamouth, London
Excavations took place in 2007 on the site of the Thames Plate Glass Company works at Leamouth, which operated during the middle of the 19th century when glass manufacturing technology was highly sophisticated and the market for all types of glass was rapidly expanding. Most notably, there was an increasing demand for ever larger areas of high-quality plate glass, for which the company became a significant supplier. The excavations provided the f…
Exploring Bristol’s historic glass industry
In 2007, extensive archaeological excavation was undertaken on an important post-medieval glassworking site at Glass Wharf, Bristol. The excavation exposed remains relating to a series of glassworks dating between the early 18th and early 20th centuries and, significantly, uncovered a sequence of five glass-melting furnaces and covering structures, which together reflect wider changes in glassmaking technology throughout these periods. Detailed s…
Iron Bloom
Metalworking debris
Three and a Half Centuries of Bottle Manufacture
This paper looks at the development of the bottle glass industry in England. The production of bottles is considered from both a typological perspective and through the chemical composition of the glass used. Samples of bottles and bottle production debris from many different production sites have been analysed to determine their chemical composition. The changes in the social organisation of the industry are discussed in relation to the changing…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
The Value of Historic Window Glass
This article reviews the nature of window glass employed in historic buildings in England over the past five centuries and presents new results on the nature of that glass. Chemical analysis of available samples has shown that window glassmaking technologies have changed over time. This provides information which can be used to identify the period of the manufacture of particular panes of glass. It is hoped that the use of chemical analysis to da…
Science for Historic Industries – Glass and Glassworking
Intervertebral chondrocalcinosis
Intervertebral chondrocalcinosis (calcification of intervertebral discs and associated structures) may arise from a variety of causes. This work presents a discussion of intervertebral chondrocalcinosis and the identification of its most probable cause in skeletal remains, using as a case study a skeleton of an elderly male from medieval Ipswich, UK. The skeleton is examined using gross observation and radiography, and the intervertebral calcific…
Glass and pottery manufacture at Silkstone, Yorkshire
This article reports an excavation on the site of a 17th-century glasshouse and 18th-century pottery at Silkstone, Yorkshire, and summarizes the results of an intensive analytical programme of scientific analysis of the glassworking debris arising from it. The area excavated was small, but the sieving of soil samples ensured a high rate of recovery of artefacts and debris associated with the industries. A large number of samples of glass and glas…
Excavations on the site of Sir Abraham Elton's glassworks, Cheese Lane, Bristol
An archaeological excavation was conducted in 2001 on the site of the former lead works in Cheese Lane, Bristol on the east bank of the River Avon (National Grid Reference ST 5942 7291). Documentary research had shown that this was the location of a glassworks established during the 18th century by Sir Abraham Elton.It was found that little of Elton's glassworks had survived subsequent development. However, the excavation located the cone and oth…
Copper Metallurgy in the Jordan Valley from the Third to the First Millennia BC
This paper investigates Bronze and Iron Age metallurgy in the Levant while recognizing that metal artefacts were employed within a world in which social, economic and technological factors were closely intertwined. This theme is addressed through the investigation of sixty-eight copper-base artefacts from the site of Pella in the Jordan Valley, taken from contexts spanning the Early Bronze Age through to the early Iron Age. Data arising from a co…
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Excavation of a timber round-house and broch at the Fairy Knowe, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, 1975-8
Reports on work that revealed evidence of occupation of what was essentially a fortified farmhouse by a native elite group practising a mixed-farming economy. There are a number of specialist sections on: `Wooden posts' by John Barber (301--2); `Palaeobotanical remains' by W E Boyd (310--16); `Animal bone' by Catherine Smith & Archie Young (316--20); `Iron Age and Roman pottery' (321--31), `Objects of fired clay' (332--5) and `Industrial fired cl…
Mystifying Roman Nails
Iron Age and Roman copper alloys from northern Britain
This paper presents the chemical analysis of over 1500 Iron Age and Roman copper alloy artefacts. The data are considered as a whole and in the light of a number of key archaeological variables: chronology, typology, provenance. Patterns evident from the analyses carried out have enabled the nature of alloys to be reliably characterised. Iron Age alloys are almost exclusively of one type only - a tin bronze which often contains a small amount of …
Roman Copper Alloys
Preface and Editor’s Preface
Roman Copper Alloys
Glass and pottery manufacture at Silkstone, Yorkshire
This article reports an excavation on the site of a 17th-century glasshouse and 18th-century pottery at Silkstone, Yorkshire, and summarizes the results of an intensive analytical programme of scientific analysis of the glassworking debris arising from it. The area excavated was small, but the sieving of soil samples ensured a high rate of recovery of artefacts and debris associated with the industries. A large number of samples of glass and glas…
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Iron Age and Roman copper alloys from northern Britain
This paper presents the chemical analysis of over 1500 Iron Age and Roman copper alloy artefacts. The data are considered as a whole and in the light of a number of key archaeological variables: chronology, typology, provenance. Patterns evident from the analyses carried out have enabled the nature of alloys to be reliably characterised. Iron Age alloys are almost exclusively of one type only - a tin bronze which often contains a small amount of …
Intervertebral chondrocalcinosis
Intervertebral chondrocalcinosis (calcification of intervertebral discs and associated structures) may arise from a variety of causes. This work presents a discussion of intervertebral chondrocalcinosis and the identification of its most probable cause in skeletal remains, using as a case study a skeleton of an elderly male from medieval Ipswich, UK. The skeleton is examined using gross observation and radiography, and the intervertebral calcific…
Excavation of a timber round-house and broch at the Fairy Knowe, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, 1975-8
Reports on work that revealed evidence of occupation of what was essentially a fortified farmhouse by a native elite group practising a mixed-farming economy. There are a number of specialist sections on: `Wooden posts' by John Barber (301--2); `Palaeobotanical remains' by W E Boyd (310--16); `Animal bone' by Catherine Smith & Archie Young (316--20); `Iron Age and Roman pottery' (321--31), `Objects of fired clay' (332--5) and `Industrial fired cl…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
Excavations on the site of Sir Abraham Elton's glassworks, Cheese Lane, Bristol
An archaeological excavation was conducted in 2001 on the site of the former lead works in Cheese Lane, Bristol on the east bank of the River Avon (National Grid Reference ST 5942 7291). Documentary research had shown that this was the location of a glassworks established during the 18th century by Sir Abraham Elton.It was found that little of Elton's glassworks had survived subsequent development. However, the excavation located the cone and oth…
Preface and Editor’s Preface
Iron Age and Roman copper alloys from northern Britain
This paper presents the chemical analysis of over 1500 Iron Age and Roman copper alloy artefacts. The data are considered as a whole and in the light of a number of key archaeological variables: chronology, typology, provenance. Patterns evident from the analyses carried out have enabled the nature of alloys to be reliably characterised. Iron Age alloys are almost exclusively of one type only - a tin bronze which often contains a small amount of …
Roman Copper Alloys
Mystifying Roman Nails
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Excavation of a timber round-house and broch at the Fairy Knowe, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, 1975-8
Reports on work that revealed evidence of occupation of what was essentially a fortified farmhouse by a native elite group practising a mixed-farming economy. There are a number of specialist sections on: `Wooden posts' by John Barber (301--2); `Palaeobotanical remains' by W E Boyd (310--16); `Animal bone' by Catherine Smith & Archie Young (316--20); `Iron Age and Roman pottery' (321--31), `Objects of fired clay' (332--5) and `Industrial fired cl…
Copper Metallurgy in the Jordan Valley from the Third to the First Millennia BC
This paper investigates Bronze and Iron Age metallurgy in the Levant while recognizing that metal artefacts were employed within a world in which social, economic and technological factors were closely intertwined. This theme is addressed through the investigation of sixty-eight copper-base artefacts from the site of Pella in the Jordan Valley, taken from contexts spanning the Early Bronze Age through to the early Iron Age. Data arising from a co…
Excavations on the site of Sir Abraham Elton's glassworks, Cheese Lane, Bristol
An archaeological excavation was conducted in 2001 on the site of the former lead works in Cheese Lane, Bristol on the east bank of the River Avon (National Grid Reference ST 5942 7291). Documentary research had shown that this was the location of a glassworks established during the 18th century by Sir Abraham Elton.It was found that little of Elton's glassworks had survived subsequent development. However, the excavation located the cone and oth…
Glass and pottery manufacture at Silkstone, Yorkshire
This article reports an excavation on the site of a 17th-century glasshouse and 18th-century pottery at Silkstone, Yorkshire, and summarizes the results of an intensive analytical programme of scientific analysis of the glassworking debris arising from it. The area excavated was small, but the sieving of soil samples ensured a high rate of recovery of artefacts and debris associated with the industries. A large number of samples of glass and glas…
Science for Historic Industries – Glass and Glassworking
Intervertebral chondrocalcinosis
Intervertebral chondrocalcinosis (calcification of intervertebral discs and associated structures) may arise from a variety of causes. This work presents a discussion of intervertebral chondrocalcinosis and the identification of its most probable cause in skeletal remains, using as a case study a skeleton of an elderly male from medieval Ipswich, UK. The skeleton is examined using gross observation and radiography, and the intervertebral calcific…
The Value of Historic Window Glass
This article reviews the nature of window glass employed in historic buildings in England over the past five centuries and presents new results on the nature of that glass. Chemical analysis of available samples has shown that window glassmaking technologies have changed over time. This provides information which can be used to identify the period of the manufacture of particular panes of glass. It is hoped that the use of chemical analysis to da…
Three and a Half Centuries of Bottle Manufacture
This paper looks at the development of the bottle glass industry in England. The production of bottles is considered from both a typological perspective and through the chemical composition of the glass used. Samples of bottles and bottle production debris from many different production sites have been analysed to determine their chemical composition. The changes in the social organisation of the industry are discussed in relation to the changing…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
Iron Bloom
Metalworking debris
Exploring Bristol’s historic glass industry
In 2007, extensive archaeological excavation was undertaken on an important post-medieval glassworking site at Glass Wharf, Bristol. The excavation exposed remains relating to a series of glassworks dating between the early 18th and early 20th centuries and, significantly, uncovered a sequence of five glass-melting furnaces and covering structures, which together reflect wider changes in glassmaking technology throughout these periods. Detailed s…
The Thames Plate Glass Company, Leamouth, London
Excavations took place in 2007 on the site of the Thames Plate Glass Company works at Leamouth, which operated during the middle of the 19th century when glass manufacturing technology was highly sophisticated and the market for all types of glass was rapidly expanding. Most notably, there was an increasing demand for ever larger areas of high-quality plate glass, for which the company became a significant supplier. The excavations provided the f…
Park Glasshouse, Birmingham — a Site of 19th-Century Innovation
In 2020 excavations took place on the site of the former Park Glasshouse, Birmingham, established in 1788, and subsequently the location of the Baker and Allen German Silver Works, opened in 1895. Sufficient of the glasshouse survived to enable several phases of development to be identified, one of which involved the installation, trialling and adoption c. 1860 of what then was an innovative Siemens gas regenerator that considerably improved the …
Early medieval iron production at Glenlee, Dumfries and Galloway
In 2020–21, excavations at Glenlee Power Station, near New Galloway, uncovered the remains of an iron bloomery mound (NGR: NX 60607 80411). The site comprised three large working hollows, containing truncated ironworking features, including furnace basal pits, and other clusters of pits, post holes and ditches. Over 450kg of vitrified debris was recovered, containing smelting slag, bloom, plano-convex bases, possible clay tuyère fragments, and ot…
An Iron Age Bloomery Iron-smelting Industry on the Mid Kent Downs
The recent discovery of a Middle to Late Iron Age bloomery iron-smelting site, revealed during archaeological works associated with the M2 Junction 5 improvement scheme in north-west Kent, has highlighted the possibility that the Stockbury Valley was the focus of a substantial ironworking industry during this period. Moreover, the waste slag assemblages recovered from the M2 Junction 5 scheme and several other sites around Stockbury appear to sho…
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