1. Results of the MPP Steps 1 to 3 studies (1993 to 1998) were summarised for the coal glass industry in an article published in 2003: Crossley D. ‘The Archaeology of the Coal-Fuelled Glass Industry in England’,Archaeological Journal, 160 (2003), 160–99. The three MPP reports are: Crossley, D. ‘MPP: The Glass Industry Step 1 Report’, English Heritage, London, 1993; Crossley, D. ‘MPP: The Glass Industry Step 3 Site Assessments’, English Heritage, London, 1996; and English Heritage, ‘MPP: The Glass Industry Step 4 Report’, English Heritage, London, 1998. The present work includes a detailed description of the individual components of the glass industry developed by the MPP in Appendix 1. It also references developer-funded work undertaken through the planning process (PPG16 and PPS5) since 1990 up to 1998. Representative subsequent work is referenced below (ref. 5). For general reading introducing the glass industry the following are helpful: Diderot, D.Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des Arts et des Metiers(Paris, 1751–71); Douglas, R.W. and S. Frank,A History of Glassmaking(Henley-on-Thames: G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd, 1972); Frank, S.The Archaeology of Glass(London: Academic Press, 1982); Guttery, D.B.From Broad Glass to Cut Crystal(London, 1956); Hartshorne, A.Old English Glasses(London, 1897); Hurst Vose, R.Glass(London: Collins, 1980); Singer, C. et al.A History of Technology(London, 1957, 1958); Thorpe, W.A.English Glass(London: Adam and Charles Black Ltd, 2nd edn, 1949).
2. Crossley, 1993, 189–92.
3. Price J. ‘Broken Bottles and Quartz-Sand: Glass Production in Yorkshire and the North in the Roman period’, in Wilson, P. and J. Price (eds),Aspects of Industry in Yorkshire and the North(Oxford, 2002), 81–93.
4. Price J, ed (ed.),Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 350–1100, British Museum Occasional Paper 127 (2000).
5. Some of this material is published elsewhere in the current volume and in an earlier issue of theReview: Miller, I. ‘Percival, Vickers & Co Ltd: The Archaeology of a 19th Century Manchester Flint Glass Works’,Industrial Archaeology Review, XXIX:1 (2007), 13–30. Birmingham material so far published or in the press comprises: Peachey, M. ‘Archaeological Excavations of Ashted Pumping Station, Belmont and Belmont Row Glassworks, at the Proposed Technology Park, Eastside, Birmingham, 2007’,Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society, 114 for 2010 (2011); Cavanagh, N. ‘Excavations at Belmont Row, Birmingham, 2009’,Trans. Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeol. Soc., 115 for 2011 (2012), 61–78; ‘Lodge Road, Hockley (the Glassworks of John Walsh Walsh)’, 2008, Final report of excavations by Cotswold Archaeology to be submitted toTrans. Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeol. Soc., 116 for 2012 (2013); Hawkers, Edgbaston Street, city centre: [Excavations in 1997 revealed process-waste attributable to this works, but no structural remains.] Patrick, C. and S. Ratkai,The Bull Ring Uncovered, Excavations at Edgbaston Street, Moor Street, Park Street and The Row, Birmingham, 1997–2001(Oxbow 2009), 178.