Oh, and I am pretty sure one with screw threads and/or cap was found at Van
Swearingen site at St Mary's City?? Is that right Silas?

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mary C. Beaudry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Bly,
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> If none of the pewter screw caps for case bottles have been found in
> English contexts, are you positing that the abundance of them at Jamestown
> had something to do with the way the project was supplied/outfitted (e.g.,
> purchases from Amsterdam warehouses or the like?)?
>
> Mary
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> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Bly Straube <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Mo,
>> Those pewter screw caps (called 'vices' in the C17) are a
>> Dutch phenomenon. Hugh Willmott (Early post-medieval vessel
>> glass in England c. 1500-1670, CBA Research Report 132,
>> 2002) claims that not one has been found in England. We have
>> lots of them from our excavations of James Fort, established
>> by the English in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
>> Bly
>>
>> Beverly A. (Bly) Straube, FSA
>> Senior Archaeological Curator
>> Jamestown Rediscovery
>> 1365 Colonial Parkway
>> Jamestown, VA 23081
>> 757 229-4997 x103
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>> Behalf Of Maureen Brown
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:52 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Case Bottle & Pewter Screw Cap Refs?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a bunch and hope everyone is cooler than us in
>> Austin!
>>
>> 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
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
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