2024-03-28T14:30:51+00:00https://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66/format/qrcodehttps://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66/format/jsonhttps://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66/format/xmlhttps://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66/format/geojsonhttps://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66/format/pdfhttps://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66/format/rdfhttps://marinefinds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/6666MAS-D10006666BOTTLEContainerFood and liquid storage container4Kent HER Number: TR 33 NW 23With finder15173/17NINETEENTH CENTURYFour stoneware bottles (three large and one smaller) that were probably used for beer, ale, stout or porter.
Stoneware bottles provided the ultimate in protection from the detrimental effects of light but were very heavy. They were produced in Britain in the 1800s and many bottles found in the United States were even imported from here.
All of these bottles have a feldspathic glaze over an ochre dip on the upper parts of the bottle giving them a darker colour on top. Feldspars (natural rocks of aluminosilicates) are used in stoneware and porcelain glazes because they fuse only at high temperatures. The feldspathic glaze dates the bottles to the 1830s or later while stoneware bottles were more or less superseded by glass by the first decade of the 20th century. These items were found with six stoneware seltzer bottles (MAS-D100065), two green glass wine bottles (MAS-D100068), three aqua glass bottles (MAS-D100071), one Hamilton bottle (MAS-D100072), four small stoneware ink bottles (MAS-D100074), six small bowls (MAS-D100076) and an egg cup (MAS-D100078).
All of these items were recovered from the wreck of SS Strathclyde, a British trading steamship built in 1871 in Blackwood, Port Glasgow. The ship sank in 1876 off Dover whilst carrying 23 passengers and 47 crew for Bombay, following a collision with Franconia and resulting in the loss of 38 lives.
NRHE and Kent HER reference numbers cited in this record refer to the wreck of SS Strathclyde.
The location of SS Strathclyde was taken from the British National Grid co-ordinate from the National Record of the Historic Environment.2017-07-24 21:26:172017-10-05 11:46:18312017-07-2428Certain139416654PAS5989C577001EA7PAS57BC21F300115BPAS57BC1E1600176F81360722MASMASCeramic10539CompleteGoodNINETEENTH CENTURYMODERNMOp0gjgrsgn96DivingL MV LL RCirca6618210TR3438TR3438TR33NW51.093539951.34042371101fatigue.paddles.woodland182IMG_1938.JPGimages/MASCountyKentSubmitted as wreck to the Receiver of Wreck96823