Dating Nathan: The Oldest Stained Glass Window in England (Download Link)

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Dating Nathan; The Oldest Stained Glass Window in England

During the summer of 2021, stained glass made headline news as new scientific research confirmed that four figures from the ‘Ancestor series’ of Canterbury Cathedral pre-date the 1174 fire, as first argued by stained glass historian Madeline Caviness in 1987. Dr Laura Ware Adlington was one of the leading scientists involved in this research, which made use of a few well-measured heavy trace elements and a 3D-printed attachment for a pXRF spectrometer that facilitated in situ analysis of the glass, leading to the conclusion that the glass actually dated to c.1130-60 and are therefore amongst the oldest stained glass in the UK.