Thursday 20 October 2011

Bottle Selection, Hammond Lane Excavations, Dublin City.




These beautiful bottles were excavated on Hammond Lane in Dublin. After a time in the ground a chemical reaction occurs and the glass changes, developing this wonderful effervescent quality. The larger bottles would probably have been imported containing wine from France. The smaller phial, would've held something more medicinal perhaps. They were all hand blown and date from the 18th Century.

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