Early mediaeval lead glass bangles from Czermno, Poland: Results of elemental and lead isotopes analyses

Sylwia Wajda; Stephen W. Merkel; Iwona Florkiewicz; Moritz Jansen; Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska; Barbara Wagner; Marcin Wołoszyn

doi:10.1111/arcm.12907

Early mediaeval lead glass bangles from Czermno, Poland: Results of elemental and lead isotopes analyses

Sylwia Wajda^*, Stephen W. Merkel, Iwona Florkiewicz, Moritz Jansen, Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska, Barbara Wagner, Marcin Wołoszyn

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This paper presents the results from analysis of thirty 12th to 13th century glass bangles from Czermno, eastern Poland. Study of the primary glass composition was carried out by laser ablation ICP-MS and electron probe microanalysis. Lead isotope analyses were conducted to determine the origin of the glass's main raw material. Two types of lead glass were distinguished, high-lead glass and Slavic lead ash glass, both of which were common in Central and Eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages. Isotopic investigations show that the lead flux for the Slavic glass likely came from the Cracow–Upper Silesia region in southern Poland.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	306-325
Number of pages	20
Journal	Archaeometry
Volume	66
Issue number	2
Early online date	22 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12907
Publication status	Published - Apr 2024

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The authors would like to thank Prof. Dariusz Rozmus from the Sztygarka City Museum for making the results of isotopic composition analyses of lead samples (from lead ore mines in the Olkusz and Łosień region) available for research and publication. These are new data for Polish deposits of this raw material. This article was written as part of the project: The Golden Apple of Polish Archaeology. Stronghold complexes at Czermno and Gródek (Cherven Towns)—chronology and function in the light of past and current research, part 2 (Ministry of Education and Science, Warsaw, NPRH, project no. 11H 18 0344 86). This is a cooperative German (GWZO, Leipzig) and Polish (esp. University of Rzeszów and University of Lublin) project.

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Sztygarka City Museum
University of Lublin
Ministry of Education and Science	11H 18 0344 86
Ministry of Education and Science
Uniwersytet Rzeszowski

Keywords

Byzantium
early mediaeval
EPMA
glass bangles
high lead glass
LA-ICP-MS
LIA
Poland
Rus
Slavic lead ash glass

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