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To your bottle inquiry, which you which you placed in a tentative context
of "a ca. 1750-1760 privy in downtown Charleston, SC."
Bill Liebeknecht wrote "I would say c.1830 -1860"
But, I would say it looks very much like the many fragments that we found
(under David Starbuck) at Rogers Island, the 1756-1763 encampment near Fort
Edward in the Hudson River (guarding the souhtern end of the Wood Creek and
overland carry to Lake Goerge, staging area for Fort William Henry, and
base of Robert Rogers fo the Rogers Rangers) (the Island is named for a
different Rogers, though). I have no specifics, but many fragments of
similar bottles, of all sizes, including one whole but crushed, were found
in the time I was there. The wide mouth usually led to a pill or medicine
bottle, but they could have held any number of things (and probably did as
they were likely to have been recycled and reused until they broke.)
Dan Weiskotten
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