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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18. Wine bottle, olive-green metal. Short cylindrical body with
conical basal kick, straight neck, and down-tooled string-rim.
Dated examples occur in the late 1730's, but are more common in
the following decade. T.N. 23.
19. Wine-bottle neck of olive-green metal in an advanced state of
decay. Wide mouth with everted lip and large round-sectioned
string-rim of unusual character. The angular shoulder suggests
that the neck comes from a body comparable to that of no. 12.
T.N. 31.
20. Pickle jar, everted-mouth fragments only. Olive-green metal in
an advanced stage of decay, originally with square body in the
manner of the more common case bottles.[177] T.N. 18.
FIGURE 20. MISCELLANEOUS SMALL FINDS
1. Harness ornament, plated brass. (See fig. 17, no. 12.) T.N. 17.
2. Harness fitting, brass. (See fig. 17, no. 13.) T.N. 15.
3. Brass button. Hollow cast; both back and front convex; the back
with two molding holes on either side of the flat-sectioned
brass loop, which spreads directly from the back without any
intermediary shank. Such buttons were common in the second
half of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th
century.[178] Diameter, 3/4 in. T.N. 23.
4. Brass curtain ring. The shape cast and then roughly filed flat
on either side. This method of manufacture is typical of the
17th and 18th centuries. Diameter, 1 in. T.N. 24.
5. Ornamental brass band from shaft or hilt of uncertain form. The
band has become flattened and folded, and the condition of the
metal precludes regaining its original shape. However, the
band is almost certainly a truncated cone, ornamented with a
roughly cutout and scored foliate decoration at the narrow end
and plated with a thin band of silver at the other end. Length,
1-3/16 in. T.N. 18.
6. Millefiori or chevron bead of yellow and black glass, almost
certainly Venetian.[179] The bead is flattened on its pierced
axis and has a diameter of 3/8 in. This example is probably
of 17th-century date, but the technique can be traced back to
Roman times. T.N. 30.
7. Chinese export porcelain-cup fragment. Decorated in
underglaze blue, rough chevron ornament below the rim on the
interior. Diameter approximately 3 in. T.N. 23.
[Illustration: FIGURE 20.--MISCELLANEOUS small finds.]
8. Lower bowl fragment of lead-glass Romer ornamented with
gadrooning or pillar molding. This is undoubtedly the finest
glass fragment from the site; it would not have been out of
place in the best English household.[180] About 1685. T.N. 30.