About This Artifact
A fragment of dark, thick-walled glass with small trapped air bubbles, recovered from the stone pathway in the swamp. Gary Drayton identified it as part of a Dutch onion bottle, a squat wide-bodied wine or spirits bottle of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and placed it in the 1600s or 1700s. The robust dark-green glass technique is attributed to Sir Kenelm Digby in the 1630s. If the identification is correct, the fragment is consistent with European provisioning activity along the pathway before the 1795 discovery of the Money Pit.
Historical Context
Recovered by Gary Drayton while excavating the stone pathway, Season 8, Episode 12. Identified by Drayton.
Where It Was Found
Found at Stone pathway, swamp — the triangle-shaped swamp on Oak Island's southeastern quadrant.
