Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology
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9. Large cylindrical jar or bowl. The wall vertical, undercut
above the slightly spread foot. Hard yellow body as above,
coated with thick treacly and streaky brown glaze of a color
much later often associated with Bennington. A rim sherd from
the same deposit is slightly everted, but since the glaze is
much lighter the piece may not belong to the same vessel. Base
diameter approximately 10-1/2 in. Probably Staffordshire. An
example recently purchased by Colonial Williamsburg (fig. 9) is
dated 1721. T.N. 30.
10. Storage jar. The rim everted and ridged internally, probably to
seat a lid; gravel tempered, pale-pink earthenware; internal
dark apple-green glaze.[171] West of England manufacture. T.N.
30.
GLASS BOTTLES
11. Wine bottle of early short-necked form. Olive-green metal; flat
string-rim; the mouth everted over rim. About 1680-1700. T.N.
30.
12. Wine bottle with squat body, short and broad neck, and roughly
applied string-rim; olive-green metal. The body type may
normally be dated around 1700, but some examples are 10 or 15
years earlier.[172] T.N. 30.
13. Wine bottle of olive-green metal. Squatter than the above,
but the neck somewhat taller and the shoulder less angular;
probably little variation in date.[173] T.N. 30.
[Illustration: FIGURE 19.--COARSE EARTHENWARES and glass bottles.
One-fourth.]
14. Wine bottle of squat form, olive-green metal. The neck taller
than in no. 12 and the string-rim smaller and V-shaped.[174]
Seal, on the shoulder, bears the legend "Richard Burbydge
1701." T.N. 30.
15. Wine bottle of squat form, olive-green metal. Somewhat bulbous
and the shoulder weak, the string-rim broad and flat.[175] A
slightly earlier form than no. 14. The bottle has a seal on its
shoulder with the initials "F I" (Frederick Jones) stamped from
a single matrix.[176] T.N. 30.
16. Wine bottle of somewhat unusual form. The metal thin olive
green has turned black through decay which has almost entirely
destroyed the metal. The body round-shouldered, and bulbous in
the early manner; but the neck tall and the string-rim almost
round-sectioned rather than V-shaped as one might expect of a
bottle of this basic form. Were it not for the soft curve of
the body and the shape of the string-rim this bottle might be
attributed to the third decade of the 18th century. Note brass
wire, still attached to neck, that held cork in place. T.N. 30.
17. Wine bottle of half-bottle size. The metal as in no. 16;
shoulder angular; neck somewhat writhen with a broad and flat
string-rim of 17th-century character. Without the last feature
(and its context) this bottle might be thought to date as late
as 1725. T.N. 30.