by Tom Licence | Jul 9, 2019
Red-brown bottle for Chateau de Conde Champagne Cognac (?) Bottled for English export by ‘Green & Co’. (For another example of a foreign product bottled for English export, see ‘AEsculap bottle’.)
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Small Hock wine bottle, imported from Germany.
by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Black glass English wine bottle necks, from a layer dating to the 1850s. Such bottles were meant to be returned, re-filled and re-used until broken.
by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Imported wine bottle necks, the one on the right retaining its lead foil (which began to be used to seal the necks/ corks of imported wine bottles c. 1840). From a layer dating to the 1850s.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2016
Bases of black glass bottles for wine, ale or beer. Such bottles were discarded only when broken. Found in a midden dating to the 1840s at Brockdish rectory.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2016
Black glass necks from bottles for wine, ale or beer, found in an 1840s midden, Brockdish rectory. Such bottles were re-usable and were discarded only when broken.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
A scale of centimetres, with fragments of French champagne bottles to the right of it, and the bases of black-glass English dip-moulded wine bottles to the left. Below the champagne bottles are necks from the English wine bottles. 1870s, from the rector’s...
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
A close-up of bottle fragments and other material from the rectory rubbish pit at Brockdish. Centre: ‘black’ glass English dip-moulded wine bottle bases. Below left: the square, tapering base of a black-glass Dutch or possibly English dip-moulded gin...
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
An assemblage of household rubbish discarded in the 1870s at Brockdish rectory. Top left (from left to right): clinker, oyster shells, small bones, green glass German mineral water bottle fragments and aqua glass English wine/ ale bottle fragments, ‘black’...
by Tom Licence | Mar 24, 2016
A green glass bottle for wine or beer with a crudely rolled applied lip. Found amid hardcore that had been steamrollered as the foundations of a track-way into the ash-yard. The cork remains, 1880s or earlier.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Light blue bottle for ‘Mason’s Wine Essences, Nottingham’. For making home-made wine.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Black glass bottle for wine or porter. Cork top. Found in the Thames.
by Tom Licence | Dec 27, 2014
Bottle for wine or beer. English, 1870s. Found in the mud below the sea wall at Burnham-on-Crouch.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Bone-handled corkscrew, from labourers’ rubbish. The other object is a ceramic bottleĀ stopper.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Wine jug, showing grapes, missing a pewter lid. From Hempstead rectory.