Roman mould blown glass bottles

Archaeology (Verulamium Museum)

2003.320; 2003.321

A pair of Roman mould blown hexagonal glass bottles. Bottles such as these often accompanied burials and may also have been used as storage vessels. From main burial one, one of two early 2nd century AD Romano-British burials discovered at Turner's Hall Farm, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, in March 2002. Some glass blowing sites are known in Britain, where broken fragments could be melted down and reused, but many objects were probably imported from the continent. It was usually used to make cups and jugs, but not window glass, as it was difficult to make large pieces of flat glass.

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