Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon glass works

HER Number:
417

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, Anglo-Saxon glass works

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Glassmaking Site

Site Type: Specific:
Glass Works

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:
C7-C8

Form of Evidence:
Implied Evidence

Description:
Bede recorded that "the art of glass-making was taught to the English by the foreigners brought from Gaul by Benedict Biscop to glaze the windows of the great abbey he was building at Wearmouth". The actual site of manufacture at this period is unknown, but excavations at the Saxon monastic site produced glass residues and furnace-lining fragments.

Easting:
40202

Northing:
57782

Grid Reference:
NZ4020257782

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 417 >> W. Page, ed. 1907, Industries, Victoria County History, Durham, Vol. II, pp. 275, 309 R.J. Cramp, 1969, Excavations at the Saxon Monastic Sites of Wearmouth and Jarrow... Medieval Archaeology, XIII, pp. 22, 24 English Heritage, 1997, Monuments Protection Program, Site Assessment