Flask Bottle Group

Three bottle glass shards were recovered from a single vessel and removed from a concretion found in the stern of the shipwreck. The fragment of this unique vessel are intriguing for two reasons; first, the remnant mold seam suggests this bottle was blown in a mold and could therefore date from the 1700s to late 1800s, and second, the fragments represent a single, unique form typically associated with personal or private consumption, i.e. kept in a pocket. Personalized spirits bottles appear in the first quarter of the 17th century but are undecorated, flattened forms with extended necks, sometimes referred to as "pumpkin seed" flasks, suitable for carrying in one's pocket or sack.