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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 13



Table Glass Excavated at Beaubassin, Nova Scotia

by Jane E. Harris

Contents

Abstract

Sommaire

Introduction

     Historical Background
     Research Techniques

Glassware of the Acadian Period

     Late 17th-Early 18th Century Globular Wine Bottles
     18th-Century French Wine Bottles
     Utilitarian Blue-Green Bottles
     Clear Non-Lead Glass Vessels

Late 18th-Century English or American Glassware

     Cylindrical Wine Bottles, ca. 1750-1770
     Cylindrical Wine Bottles, ca. 1770-1800
     Case Bottles
     Snuff Bottles
     Medicine Bottles
     Unidentified Bottles
     Lead Glass Tableware
     Firing Glasses
     Plain-Stemmed "Wine" Glasses
     Decanter Stopper

Discussion and Conclusions

     Excavation Unit 1
     Excavation Units 2 and 3
     Excavation Unit 4
     Excavation Units 7 and 8
     Analyses of Glassware and Ceramics Compared
     Social Implications of the Beaubassin Glassware

References Cited

Tables

1 Cylindrical wine bottle necks.

2 Description of cylindrical bottle.

3 Cylindrical wine bottle necks.

4 Case bottle bases.

Illustrations

1 Beaubassin site map.

2 Wine bottle body fragment.

3 English wine bottle fragments, 1750-70.

4 English wine bottle, 1770-1800.

5 English wine bottle fragments.

6 Case bottle bases.

7 Bottle fragments.

8 Turlington bottle base.

9 Bottle fragments.



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