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Accumulations of glass cullet from the Komarov settlement (Western Ukraine), where the only one glassworking workshop beyond the Roman limes was studied, were analyzed using archaeological methods. These assemblages comprising up to 500 fragments of glass vessels were concentrated in dwelling houses of local Barbarian population or near them. They contain not only numerous blown vessels and thick-walled beakers with facet cut decoration, but also items untypical for the local material culture, including the ones dated earlier than the settlement of Late Roman Time (fragments of cast vessels of the 1st century AD, window panes, a stirring rod). These accumulations seem to represent glass cullet intended for secondary production at Komarov. They could have been partly collected locally and partly imported to the site. Location of clusters of cullet implies that they were collected by local population, whereas the workshop should have been operated by provincial Roman craftsmen. According to the obtained data, the workshop existed at the site in the mid-4th century — early Hun period, which has been confirmed also by chemical composition of raw glass.

Keywords: Western Ukraine, Late Roman Time, Chernyakhov culture, Komarov settlement, glass working, chronology, secondary production, cullet

Information about author:

Olga Rumyantseva (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117036, Russian Federation
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