{ "record":[ { "id":"40", "old_findID":"MAS-D100040", "uniqueID":"40", "objecttype":"BOTTLE", "classification":"Container", "subclass":"Food and liquid storage container", "length":null, "height":null, "width":null, "weight":null, "thickness":null, "diameter":null, "quantity":"1", "otherRef":null, "curr_loc":"With finder", "discoveryMethod":"15", "treasureID":"091\/17", "broadperiod":"POST MEDIEVAL", "numdate1":null, "numdate2":null, "description":"
One onion bottle dated to c.<\/em>1700.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Glass onion bottles<\/span> were large hand-blown glass bottles,<\/span> used aboard sailing ships to hold wine or brandy. For increased stability on rough seas, the bottles<\/span> were fashioned with a wide-bottom shape to prevent toppling. Between <\/span><\/span>c.<\/em>1690 and c.<\/em>1720 the outline of a wine bottle resembled an onion - a wide compressed globular body and a short neck (Robinson and Harding 2015). Most bottles before 1700 had a ring of glass just below the neck that gave anchorage to the string used to hold in variety of stoppers. The Dutch bottles usually had a longer neck than the English ones and featured a flat wraparound rim, while the English bottlenecks had an applied collar or laid on ring (Polak 2016).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>",
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