Here is a nice free blown squat cylinder bottle (c.1790s) I found  buried in the sand. I had been fanning a large trench about 20" deep and was finding lots of pottery shards and broken black glass bottles, after about two hours I found this nice intact one, it is in really great shape. I am sure there are more in the area...I found it in the same spot I had been digging when I found the large pottery pieces pictured in a previous post - July 4

Here are some more bottles and pottery that we found last weekend. There are two aqua medicines, a small burst top jar, an old ceramic pot with lots of old coral stuck to it, a very nice dark amber cone ink and an unusual bright green bottle with a sheared top - this looks like it could have been a perfume bottle, I have never seen one like this before. Overall, some pretty good finds last weekend!

Here are some super nice bottles we found in Harrington Sound today, three are a light amethyst colour...two medicines and the small one, a Hamilton Coffee & Spice bottle...one of my favourites, the forth bottle is a very nice medium sized cobalt blue castor oil bottle, also found were lots of pottery shards

Here's an interesting story from Tony Chliek, a past visitor to the Island from New York;

In 1981 I was on vacation in Bermuda with my wife. One day I was snorkeling in the waters next to Fort St. Catherine and spotted a small piece of ceramic sticking out of the sand. I dove down, dug the sand away and discovered this bottle. I had no idea what the bottle was, but the thrill of 'finding treasure' made my vacation.

Thirty years of searching off and on for some information on my find and I stumbled upon Steve's web site. I contacted him and finally today, I know something about my buried treasure. In his words, "That's a really nice bottle and must have been very exciting to find. It is from around the 1870s and was used mainly for beer or ginger beer, it is stoneware which would help keep the contents cooler a lot longer than glass bottles. These were very popular during the Victorian period. There was a large British Military presence in Bermuda during the 1800s, so it is very possible that it was tossed into the water by someone manning the Fort."

Finally, 30 years later a mystery has been solved.

Now here is a nice find...a very old black glass flat octagonal bottle that dates to around the 1730s. It is very irregular in shape and the pontil mark is so crude that it leans at an angle when standing. I found it today along the Warwick coastline about 50' offshore completely exposed laying on the sand. It is 8" tall and in perfect condition

I went diving this past weekend and found a few nice pieces in the Little Sound. In the top picture there is a small stoneware inkwell that was just sitting in the sand waiting for me, an old Lea & Perrins bottle, a beautiful multi sided olive oil bottle that has a mark on the base dating it to 1840 and a large pottery shard with a nice cobalt blue floral pattern.

In the second picture and found on the same dive was a large stoneware ginger beer bottle that is in perfect condition and two large pieces of pottery which although broken make awesome display pieces with the attached old coral growth. All date to around the 1840s - 1860s

Beautiful and colourful finds from in front of some very old properties in the Granaway Deep area of Warwick. Although the original houses are mostly long gone, the old glass bottles still remain as a reminder just sitting in the sand.