Roman glass makes it's way to Castleford

he archaeological digs carried out into Castleford’s past have revealed a great amount of glass fragments. More than 2400 pieces of vessel glass were found from a minimum of 238 vessels, more than 800 pieces of bottle glass from a minimum of 48 containers, more than 200 pieces of glass and frit beads, 46 gaming counters and 50 tesserie were found. From the catalogued finds by trenches the finds were: glass vessels 148 fort, 454 vicus and 26 from areas which covered both fort and vicus; and the glass objects were 74 fort, 223 vicus and 12 from both.