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Finally we are back in our stride with this Roman Settlement next to the Metal Working area. We gridded a huge area with very little trash & no buttons! Got lots of good finds in the 6 hour 15 mins hunt;

28 Roman Coins
19th C Sauce Bottle top (glass)
Tudor Clothes Fastener
Tudor bent Strap-end
Tudor Buckle
Roman Nail Cleaner (best of its type)8-)
Roman Bronze Bead
Fibula
2 Roman Rings, 1 1st C AD Romano-Celtic
My first coin & deepest of the day (below plough depth, that's why its so nice) - Maximinus II Trier Mint Follis AD310-13.:headbang:
 

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Very fascinating finds Cru ! I always enjoy your posts and finds. I hate to throw cool water on part of the thread, but I believe the applied lip bottle top to be from an 1860-1880 era Worcestershire Sauce type bottle, probably Lea & Perrins or one of their early competitors. HH
 

Very fascinating finds Cru ! I always enjoy your posts and finds. I hate to throw cool water on part of the thread, but I believe the applied lip bottle top to be from an 1860-1880 era Worcestershire Sauce type bottle, probably Lea & Perrins or one of their early competitors. HH

Have a look in the top & tell me if it still fits? Cheers.
Happy to change the ID if your sure, Cru'dad will need to scrub it from the GPS records as well.

PS. Tried a Lea & Perrins glass stopper & it didn't fit.
 

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Love that Roman coin Cru - fantastic detail!! And nice job on that glass piece. It has amazing similarities to modern 20th century soda bottles.
 

Love that Roman coin Cru - fantastic detail!! And nice job on that glass piece. It has amazing similarities to modern 20th century soda bottles.

Sorry, but my glass ID skills are not that great, only experience come from digging a Victorian Bottle Dump as a kid. Not seen this lip before, & seen quite a few applied lips.

So UPDATE (thanks to Redbeardrelics);
''The glass Lea & Perrins stoppers, and their un-embossed glass counterparts, would have fit inside of a hollow cork, and thus the cork would have provided the cushion, and the seal, between the stopper and the inside diameter of the bottle neck. The area down inside the neck where the diameter gets smaller, would have been a seat, and further sealing area for the cork.
Your example having a separately applied lip, as opposed to just a hand tooled lip, makes it an earlier variant, before the mid 1880's. It may not have had a glass stopper, and possibly had just a plain cork. The glass stoppers seem to have come into vogue a little later once Lea & Perrins started using them."
 

As Always, a killer hunt! :notworthy:
 

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