Roman Conical glass jug

Archaeology (Verulamium Museum)

Roman conical green glass jug. Jugs such as this would have been used as high quality tableware, probably for wine. From burial two, 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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