Excavations at the 17th-century glasshouse at Haughton Green, Denton, near Manchester

Abstract

The remains of a glasshouse dating approximately from 1615 to 1653 were located in the valley of the river Tame at Haughton Green, Denton, south-east of Manchester (SJ/942946), and were excavated between 1969 and 1973. The glasshouse was one of the first provincial coal-fired furnaces established under the monopolist Sir Robert Mansell; it was leased to Isaac du Houx, a member of the aristocratic Huguenot family of glass-makers from Lorraine. Only partial excavation of the site was possible, but the main furnace was fully excavated and three subsidiary furnaces exposed nearby. The main furnace probably held four pots, with two pots resting on parallel sieges, the main feature being a deep passage running beneath the sieges which fed air to the central iron grid which would have supported the coal fuel. The subsidiary furnaces were probably annealing furnaces for cooling the glass. The products included good quality forest style vessel glass in green, black and blue glass with moulded and applied furnace decoration, bottles and chemical ware, and cylinder window glass.

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