An Archaeometric Study of Soil and Glass from the High Medieval Castle of Cucagna, Northern Italy. Interdisciplinary interpretations regarding glass technology, geochemistry of the soil burial environment, conservation and cultural history KU Leuven
This research is based on archaeological glass with corresponding soil samples, excavated on the site of the high medieval castle Cucagna in Friuli/Northern Italy. The glass fragments can be dated between the 13th and the 15th century AD.
The core hypothesis of this work is that the glass used at Cucagna Castle were brought in from the Northern Italian glass factories under Venetian patronage, as the impressive glass qualities ...