Non-Destructive Analysis of European Cobalt Blue Glass Trade Beads |
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| Authors: | RGV Hancock J McKechnie S Aufreiter K Karklins M Kapches M Sempowski J-F Moreau I Kenyon |
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| Institution: | (1) Slowpoke Reactor Facility and Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3E5;(2) Slowpoke-2 Facility and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 57K 7B4;(3) Parks Canada, Ontario Service Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0M5;(4) Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2C6;(5) Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York 14603, USA;(6) Université du Québec á Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada, G7H 2B1;(7) Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto, Canada, M5C 1J3 |
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| Abstract: | Chemical analyses were made of royal blue glass trade beads from two early 17th century, archaeological sites in southern Ontario, Canada and from a glass beadmaking house in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The results confirm that these beads were all mixed alkali — lime — silica glasses, coloured with Co and with opaque varients opacified with Sn. The groupings by chemistry tend to segregate by bead shapes, so that oval beads group together and circular shaped beads group together. Although the 2 Canadian sites are about 190 km apart, they produced 2 different sets of oval beads of similar chemistry, possibly helping confirm the contemporaneity of the people at both sites. An As/Co atomic ratio of about two may fit with the possible source of Co as a cobalt-arsenide ore (of common name smaltite) from the Hartz Mountains of eastern Germany, a source not far from either Amsterdam or Venice, both well known glass beadmaking centres of the period. |
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