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Sharon Liptrott

Rare medieval Islamic glass found at Dumfriesshire castle helps with digital reconstruction

Rare medieval Islamic glass fragments, found at a Dumfriesshire castle more than 20 years ago, have been used to create a 3D-model digital reconstruction of a beaker.

The three tiny pieces were uncovered during excavation work on the site of the old Caerlaverock castle during archaeology work in the late 1990s.

They remain the first and only glass of its kind to be found at an archaeological site in Scotland and, at 3.1cm x 2.8cm, two of the fragments together are smaller than a ping pong ball.

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