SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Battle Place

CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave (Burial 1) in Burial Plot 3 (Martin 1939). Associated with V-2007 to V-2009 and V-2011 to V-2013.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-696

VESSEL NO.: V-2010

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a collar at the bottom of the neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: L (incompletely oxidized; possibly smudged or re-heated)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown, fire clouds on the neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black, with fire clouds on the neck and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 4.8 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the upper neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the neck and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 17.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.3; 12.5 cm wide at the widest part of the bottle body

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.9

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.70 liters

DECORATION: There are three horizontal engraved lines immediately below the base of the bottle neck and an accompanying set of three horizontal lines near the vessel base. The body has three panels created by vertical engraved lines, and each panel features a complex and unique series of hatched circular, semi-circular, rectangle, and scroll elements.

The panels are divided in half by a horizontal and semi-circular hatched band with hatched spurs, with a hatched scroll and semi-circle in the upper part of the panel. The lower left part of the panel has hatched rectangles, while the lower right portion of the panel has engraved semi-circles. The main semi-circle in each panel has three hatched bands within it.

TYPE: cf. Haley Engraved

Haley Engraved bottle (5425-696).