by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Neck and shoulders of a porter or veterinary bottle (white slip, salt-glazed stoneware).
by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Fragment of a large impressed stoneware bottle – possibly a porter bottle or a veterinary bottle. The upper line of text begins with the word ‘ROYAL’. The lower line begins with an address ’86, LOW…’.
by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Fragments of a salt-glazed stoneware porter bottle, only partly glazed inside (at the top). These bottles were returnable and re-usable.
by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Fragment of a salt-glazed porter bottle embossed with the remains of the words ‘Wine and Spirit Merchant’, and beneath this, ‘Eye’ (in Suffolk). The name of the proprietor, which would have formed the first line of text, is missing. Bottles of...
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2016
Fragmentary porter bottle, found in a midden from the 1840s along with broken black glass utility bottles and oyster shells, at Brockdish rectory.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Black glass bottle for wine or porter. Cork top. Found in the Thames.