Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

ANALYSES - GLASS - Edit MESTER - István SZABÓ: Research of medieval glass vessels and glasshauses in Visegrád and Diósjenő

Fig. 7 Glass fragments were found in Bene-ground at Visegrád (34, Fő Street). (E. MESTER, I. SZABÓ, 1997.) Fig. 8: Melting pot was found in Bene-ground at Visegrád (34, Fő Street).(E. MESTER, I. SZABÓ, 1997.) Katalin H. Gyürky and Zsuzsa Miklós excavated a medieval glasshouse near Diósjenő in county Nógrád in 1987 (GYÜRKY and MIKLÓS, 1992: 69-90). A rectangular melting furnace, two round fritting and an annealing furnaces as well as a hut were discovered in the forest near Kemence brook (Fig. 9). This glasshouse was functioning during the 13

th to 15

th centuries. Edit Mester and Zsuzsa Miklós excavated two additional glasshouses near the aforementioned fmdspot in 1995 (MESTER and SZABÓ, 1997: 8-10). A melting-furnace, an annealing-furnace and a hut were found in the second glasshouse. A melting-furnace, a fritting-furnace, an annealing-furnace and a simple furnace were excavated in the third glasshouse. These furnaces were rectangular. Many refractory pots, waste, glass glass drops, and glass fragments were found in the stoke-holes of furnaces (Fig. 10-16). These glasshouses were Working from the second half of the 15

th century to the first half of the 16

th century. 104