Coming as it dues i'roiii stratum Dl it might be con- 

 strued that the fragment does not belong to the pit. 



4. Neck of '"Piermont'" water bottle. Impression of 

 seal matrix on the string-rim. J3. For details .see 

 p. 190 (fig. 16, no. 5). 



5. Bottle neck. Olive-green glass turned brown Ijy 

 decay; neck markedly tapering towards a flat 

 string-rim appro.ximately Vu inch below the lip; 

 lip tooled outwards above rim. This is a conti- 

 nental European shape and ma\' well come from a 

 Pyrmont water bottle with a bod\- shaped like no. 6. 

 Mid-18th century. A3. 



6. Body of PNTmont water bottle. Pale olive-green 

 glass; butt-shaped with weak shoulder wider than 

 the base; base with pronounced conical kick and 

 rough pontil mark. The seal on the shoulder has 

 an eight-pointed star in the center surrounded by 

 the legend piermon[t water]. Mid-1 8lh century. 

 B3. 



7. Neck of wine bottle or spa water bottle. Deep 

 olive-green glass turned brown by decay; thick- 

 walled; vertical stress grooves up the neck: roughly 

 trailed round-sectioned string-rim approximately 

 'Xe inch below the flat lip. Probably French. 

 Third quarter of 18th century (!') K2. 



8. Shoulder of wine bottle. 01i\e to amber-green 

 glass turned brown by decay; possible graffito "E"' 

 or crossed 'T"' scratched on glass. Aroimd 1740- 

 1760. Kl. 



9. Neck fragment of large storage bottle or carljoy. 

 Olive-green iridescent glass; much decayed; o\al 

 string-rim 'U inch below tapering lip. It is possible 

 that the thinness of the lip was unintentional and 

 resulted from chipping while in use. First half of 

 18th century. C3. 



10. Base of snuflf or blacking liottle. Olive-green 

 glass turned brown by decay: octagonally molded: 

 the base slightly rising. An intact bottle of this type 

 was recovered from the wreck of a vessel that sank 

 at Yorktown in 1781; others ha\e been found in 

 dated deposits in Williamsburg dating from the per- 

 iod about 1760-1770. B2, K2. 



1 1 . Case bottle. Pale olive-green glass much marred 

 by decay; square body section: weak shoulder: short 

 neck; everted lip; base thick, slightly rising, and 

 with traces of a pontil mark. The bottle is recon- 

 structed from fragments, though there is no section 

 through it: the height was conjectured on the basis 

 of intact examples in the collection of C^olonial 

 Williamsburg and elsewhere. ProbaWy second or 



third quarter of 18th century. Neck from C2, rest 

 from J 2. 

 12 Jar neck. Olise-green glass much decased; prob- 

 ablv from square-bodied \'essel: shoulder broad and 

 weak; rim everted. Ajar of this type was found in a 

 context attributed to the period 1740-1750 to 

 the northeast of the Public Gaol in Williamsl)urg. 

 C2. 



13. Pickle jar(?). 01i\e-green glass much decayed; 

 square-sectioned body broader at shoulder than at 

 base; shoulder weak; mouth wide and with a 

 sharply e\erted and down-tooled rim; ba.se ex- 

 tremely thick and slightly rising. Second or third 

 quarter of 18th century. F2, F3, G2, N2. 



14. Wine bottle neck. Glass almost entirely destroyed 

 b\- decay; large flat string-rim unevenly applied 

 below the roughly out-tooled mouth. About 1720- 

 1730. This fragment is of importance in that it 

 was found in clay sealed Ijy the secondary Indian 

 deposit in B4. 



15. Wine bottleneck. 01i\e-green glass turned brown 

 by decay: similar in form to no. 14. Although 

 manv such necks were recovered, this example is 

 of interest in that it still retains its original brass 

 wire. Bottles with this shoulder form are known 

 with dated seals from 1722 to 1727, indicating an 

 over-all range of around 1720-1730 with the 

 emphasis on the later years. K2. 



Figure 32*" 



1. Wine glass, lead metal."" Three-piece construc- 

 tion; w-aisted bowl with solid base; cushioned, in- 

 verted baluster stem; domed foot: a circular bubble 

 in base of bowl: a squat, in\erted tear in the 

 baluster; "' rough pontil inark in center of basal 

 dome. The lip of the glass is mi.ssing and has been 



*" Dating and nomenclature used in these descriptions of 

 wine glasses are derived from E. Barrington Haynes. Glass 

 thrniigh the Ages, London, 1948. 



When discussing wine and other glasses, archeologists use 

 the word "metal" to refer to the substance from which the 

 vessel is made, thus avoiding confusion between "glass"' as 

 a shape and "glass" as (in the present instance) a mixture 

 of silica, alkali, and lead oxide. 



" .'Ml tears shown in this and the following drawings are 

 drawn to indicate their exterior appearance. It is realized 

 that the actual cavity is very much smaller than it appears. 

 However, as the exact measurements could not be determined 

 without breaking open the stems, and as any attempt to indicate 

 the true size in the section would give an imperfect impressoin 

 of the tear's appearance, the cavity is incorrectly drawn to 

 the same size in both section and profile. 



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