This has nothing to do with bottles, but...
Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire, England has a child's shoe from Elizabethan
(late 16th century) times, found in a house chimney of that date. The
explanation for this is that the shoe was a device to protect the house
from the malign acts of witches against the inhabitants of the house.
John Carman (former Curator of Ely Museum)
Clare Hall
Cambridge CB3 9AL
Uk