Thanks Bly, Jim, Mary, Daniel, and Sara, and "histarchers",
Thanks for your very helpful and quick replies to my request for case bottle comparisons and references this morning! I'm familiar with the case bottles from the early Chesapeake sites since your colonial online dbase for those sites is incredible and user friendly!
I had spoken to Hugh at a previous SHA meeting about them not being recovered in England. The same report came from Donny Hamilton (Tx A&M) with only a fragment or two (and no pewter caps) found in the 10 years under water excavation of the sunken British town of Port Royal, Jamaica. Hubart Cabart, French glass specialist, said these are very rare on French terrestrial sites. Several case bottles and marked caps (traced to Gdansk) were excavated from:
-- Natiere 1 wreck (c. 1705-1715), Saint-Malo, France
Reference:
L'Hour, M. et E. Veyrat, 2000, Un corsaire sous la mer. L'épave de la Natière. Archéologie sous-marine à Saint-Malo., Campagne de fouille 1999. Paris, Adramar, p. 32-33, 84.
It would be interesting to see comparisons from early terrestrial Dutch sites.
Much appreciation and thanks again!
Mo
Maureen Brown
Collections Manager/Archeologist III
Archeology Division
Texas Historical Commission
P.O. Box 12276
Austin, TX 78701-2276
(512) 927-7876 office
(512) 927-9797 fax
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sara Rivers
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Case Bottle & Pewter Screw Cap Refs?
Maureen,
If you're just looking for quick references to sites that have these bottles, the one Jim Gibb is referring to has been written up on the web: http://www.chesapeakearchaeology.org/SiteSummaries/PatuxentPointSummary.htm
There are no actual photos of the Patuxent Point bottle on web, but we have the collection here at the MAC Lab and can get one for you easily. Just let me know off list.
Also, www.chesapeakearchaeology.org has at least one other site with such bottles in addition to Patuxent Point. There are photos in the web photo gallery of a bottle and cap from Jordan's Journey in Virginia: http://www.chesapeakearchaeology.org/Artifacts/JJArtifacts.htm
Yours,
Sara Rivers Cofield
Curator of Federal Collections
Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory
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From: Jim Gibb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Case Bottle & Pewter Screw Cap Refs?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 2:14 PM
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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Gibb Archaeological Consulting
James G. Gibb, Ph.D.
2554 Carrollton Road
Annapolis, Maryland 21403
(443) 482-9593
www.gibbarchaeology.org
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From: Maureen Brown <[log in to unmask]>
> Hello everyone,
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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
> to the group as well.
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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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> Mo
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> Maureen Brown
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> Collections Manager/Archeologist III
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> Archeology Division
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> Texas Historical Commission
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> P.O. Box 12276
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> Austin, TX 78701-2276
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> (512) 927-7876 office
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> (512) 927-9797 fax
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> [log in to unmask]
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