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Roman glass bottle
Thirty-eight body and base fragments, some joining, and one handle fragment of a cylindrical glass bottle of blue-green glass. Several large air bubblesare trapped within the walls. The handle is angular, flat-sectioned and multi-ribbed, about 5.3 cms wide at angle. The diameter of the body is approximately 13 cms but ther is insufficient surviving to reconstruct the height of the body.
The preponderance of cylindrical bottles at this site is interesting in view of the early date of the vessel glass assemblage as a whole. It has been noted elsewhere that collections containing a high proportion of first century vessels tend to be dominated by cylinders which went out of use during the Trajanic period (Boon 1967, 95; Price 1985, 308)
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Site Name: British Telecom Site, Caerleon
Notes: Excavation conducted on land immediately to the east of the telephone exchange on Museum Street.