A Day in the Lab

The other day the field crew brought in a bunch of broken glass from a site.  My lab manager did some research and found out that:

1.  It was a bottle

2.  All the pieces fit back together

3.  It was a really old bottle...late 1800s

I decided we should try to put it back together.  I started on the base, carefully gluing (don't worry not Elmer's glue!) the pieces back together.  My lab manager is in the process of finishing it up.  Its fun to see the puzzle pieces fit back together and to see what the bottle once looked like in all its former glory. 

I like to wonder who the person was who used this bottle over a 100 years ago.