Maureen and Fellow HistARCHers:
One such bottle was recovered from the Patuxent Point site in southern Calvert County, Maryland, in a context that broadly dates from the mid-1660s through 1680s. We did not recover a cap, only the bottle and its pewter threading. A drawing can be found my The Archaeology of Wealth: Consumer Behavior in English America (Plenum, 1996: 184)
Jim

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> Since my companion, Marybeth, had such a great response to her request 
> for faience references from everyone, I thought I'd make a small request 
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> I'm researching glass from the La Belle shipwreck, which was one of the 
> La Salle's, the French explorer's vessels that wrecked on the Texas 
> coast in 1686. The majority of glass recovered includes three sizes of 
> case bottles and associated pewter screw caps, similar to the ones found 
> on several VOC (Dutch East Indiamen) merchant vessels. In addition, 
> there were a few onion bottles and hour glasses/sand clocks found as 
> well. I'm interested in references, information, and/or comparative 
> underwater and terrestrial sites that have found 17th - 18th century 
> case bottles and/or pewter screw caps/tops. 
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> Thanks a bunch and hope everyone is cooler than us in Austin! 
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