Blue/Green Glass Bottles from Roman Britain

Contents

Acknowledgements  

Preface

Section 1

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Data

Section 2

Chapter 3: Family 1: Square bottle bases with concentric circles

Chapter 4: Family 2: Square bottle bases framed by circular mouldings

Chapter 5: Family 3: Square bottle bases framed by square mouldings

Chapter 6: Family 4: Square bottle bases framed by angle mouldings

Chapter 7: Families 5-7: square bottle bases without frames

Chapter 8: Hexagonal bottles

Chapter 9: Rectangular and octagonal bottles

Section 3

Chapter 10: Chronological patterns

Chapter 11: Distributions: Geographical and social

Chapter 12: The uses they served

Chapter 13: Summing up

Appendix 1: Base moulds

Appendix 2: Mould parallels

Appendix 3: Bath flask capacity data

Appendix 4: Guide to the Digital files

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Hilary Cool works within commercial British archaeology providing specialist post-excavation services. For nearly thirty years she has run her own business working with many projects in the professional and academic sectors. She is also a director of Barbican Research Associates, a company specialising in bringing backlog sites to publication. She has published numerous articles and books including The Roman Cemetery at Brougham (Roman Society 2004), Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain (Cambridge University Press 2006) and The Small Finds and Vessel Glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii (Archaeopress 2016).

Reviews

‘Square bottles came into use in the AD 60s and rapidly became the commonest glass vessel form in the empire. For the next two centuries their fragments dominate all glass assemblages. Hitherto this material has not been exploited to any great extent because there has been no close chronological framework. This book presents a classification scheme for the moulded base patterns which allows their chronological development to be reconstructed. With this it is possible to explore how sizes and capacities changed with time.’ – Epistula XXVII (2024)