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Glass bottle
Glass wine bottle. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in the South Edinburgh Channel, Thames Estuary.
This is numerically the first of 75 items in this collection (REL0628-REL0771; ZBA0439-ZBA0445 and a group of items including bottle corks and iron shot held as THAMES SAMPLES with their former non-computerized Archaeology record numbers). For the published account of the wreck site from which they were recovered in 1975-76, see David Parham, Elizabeth Rundell and Pieter van der Merwe, 'A Late-18th-Century Merchantman Wrecked in the South Edinburgh Channel, Thames Estuary, England' in 'International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2013) vol. 42, no. 1 pp. 137-49 (illustrated).
This is numerically the first of 75 items in this collection (REL0628-REL0771; ZBA0439-ZBA0445 and a group of items including bottle corks and iron shot held as THAMES SAMPLES with their former non-computerized Archaeology record numbers). For the published account of the wreck site from which they were recovered in 1975-76, see David Parham, Elizabeth Rundell and Pieter van der Merwe, 'A Late-18th-Century Merchantman Wrecked in the South Edinburgh Channel, Thames Estuary, England' in 'International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2013) vol. 42, no. 1 pp. 137-49 (illustrated).
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Object Details
| ID: | REL0628 |
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| Collection: | Relics |
| Type: | Wine bottle |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | Late 18th century |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 265 mm; Diameter: 95 mm |
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