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Object Number
974-36-10/52356
Display Title
Pieces of glass bottle sherds; 2 small intact medicinal bottles; Screw-top bottl
Descriptions
Object Description
29 pieces of glass bottle sherds; 2 small intact medicinal bottles; screw-top bottle; bottle with "spint" (cologne or bayrum); 2 marked sherds: one with horace bartlett, family chemists; Cambridge, Mass
Inventory Description
Fragments of bottle glass, including decorated molded glass, embossed medicine bottle, and tumbler, in base, body, and screw-top rim fragments.
Classification
- Colorless bottle glass
- Tumbler
Department
Archaeological
Date
19th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
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Massachusetts
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Middlesex County
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Cambridge
/
Harvard Yard
Intrasite
Hunt-Canaday Hall Site
Additional Geographic Terms
Harvard University
Materials
Glass
Dimensions
Overall (Measurement of screw-top rim): 7.2 × 3.5 × 0.5 cm (2 13/16 × 1 3/8 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity
28
Label on object
974-36-10/52356
Provenance
Provenance
Unknown
(1974)
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