Seen through Glass

From drinking vessels to jewellery, glass is found in archaeological assemblages all over the world. Our guests Sue Heaser and Frank Wiesenberg join us on this month’s episode of Finally Friday to shed light on how experimental archaeology can help us ask new questions of this important material. Phoebe Baker is the host of this show. 

Sue studied Archaeology at the University of Exeter and her early career was as a Finds Assistant for the Museum of London and then as an Archaeological Illustrator for what is now English Heritage. Her drawings of Anglo-Saxon finds in particular are published in many archaeological reports and publications. She studied jewellery making and many other traditional crafts in order to better illustrate artefacts and this led to a career writing many books on a wide variety of crafts.

Starting in 1996 with Roman crafts living history demonstrations, Frank co-founded the project "Römischer Vicus", presenting several demonstrations of a dozen craftspeople on the website  and attending Roman living history events in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland.