Site Event/Activity record ECH3145 - Ridgway and Leach Excavations at Glaziers Hollow, 1947

Further investigation of the site in 1947 by members of Newstead's original excavation team. Excavations were limited by the trees, with trenches limited to a width of no more than eighteen inches (c.460mm) and only on one side of each tree. This did not prevent a larger are being investigated than in 1935 and it was possible to determine that the glass debris was confined to an area of thirty-six square feet. No structural remains were found in situ. There was twelve to thirty inches (300-760mm) of soil containing debris from the glasshouse consisting of window glass, fragments of crucibles, stone coated with run glass, a little pottery and a few bones.