Němčice a zpracování skla v laténské Evrope

The open settlement of Němcice in Moravia (Czech Republic) provides evidence of local glass-working, the earliest so far identified in La Tene Europe. By the LT C1 period at the latest the workshop produced artefacts usually classified as "Celtic glass". The assemblage of over 2000 objects includes not only hundreds of finished products such as glass bracelets, rings, spacers and beads, but also a considerable quantity of glass-working waste, semi-products and raw glass. A series of glass samples from Němcice and other European sites were submitted to SEM-EDS and NAA analyses. Their results confirmed the similar chemical composition of the glass-working component and finished products from the site to that of other La Tene glass assemblages. Comparison of chemical and archaeological data points to the significance and limits of the applied analytical methods for different aspects of pre-Roman glass research.