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  • This 'tear bottle' would probably have been used to store essential oils etc.
Roman tear bottle
  • This goblet is inscribed
Glass goblet, Gwynedd, 18th century
  • Two fragments of glass dating from the sixth or seventh centuries. Discovered at the New Pieces settlement on Breidden Hill, suggesting activity at this site during the post-Roman period.
Glass fragments from New Pieces settlement, Breidden Hill
  • Almost complete pale-green glass cup or bowl with vertical ribs. Produced by blowing glass into a two part mould with a separate base piece. It was found in a rubbish pit dating to the abandonment of the fortress. A wide variety of tablewares, drinking cups and vessels for serving liquids and food, were in use during the life of the fortress at Usk. The presence of an early legionary fortress at Usk (Burrium) was detected as recently as the late 1960s. It was built about the year AD 55, probably by the Twentieth Legion, as a base for the conquest of South Wales. The fortress was defended by a rampart, with timber towers and gateways, and a ditch in front. The buildings would also have been constructed from wood. Usk was vacated in the late 60s, but the fortress was dismantled only when new headquarters were built in AD 74 or 75 by the Second legion, downstream at Caerleon.
Roman glass cup from Usk
  • The Dinas Powys glass includes rim sherds from cone beakers with horizontal trailed white glass. Similar glass has been found in Anglo-Saxon graves.
Early medieval glass from Dinas Powys, 7th century
  • The butler's pantry is where much of the footmen and butlers' work was done, such as polishing the table silver and laying trays, as well as the butler's tasks of decanting wine, cleaning pens, sorting the incoming and outgoing mail, and ironing the daily newspapers (to prevent the ink from rubbing off onto the reader's hands). The butler and footmen would also be responsible for answering the door to visitors.
Butler's pantry, St Fagans Castle, Museum of Welsh Life, late 19th century