Artefacts provide evidence for dating, aspects of everyday life and trade and technology in the past. Look through the artefact gallery to discover more and glimpse some of the finds from the M74 Dig excavations.
Pollokshaws Road Tenements. A small bone spoon recovered during the excavation of the Rosehill Cottages.
Pollokshaws Road Tenements. A domino recovered from Rosehill Cottages - late 19th Century. It has been made by placing a thin slice of bone on to a piece of wood, and the dots showing the numbers have been drilled to create depressions.
Pollokshaws Road Tenements. A 1900 Silver Sixpence recovered during the excavation of the basement of a former shop on Devon Street.
Pollokshaws Road Tenements. A Glasgow Co-op milk bottle found during the excavations on MacKinlay Street. Milk bottles were once a common feature of the Scottish door step.
Govan Iron Works. Excavation at the iron works foundry and Lower English Buildings has produced a small amount of finds. This steel artefact has yet to be identified but may have run along a rail to help move iron products around the foundry.
Caledonian Pottery. A range of items including teapot fragments (far left) kiln furniture, acid jar lids, stoneware bottles (bottom middle) and jam jars (right).
Caledonian Pottery. Ginger Beer Bottles made for companies in Londonderry, Cork and Burnley. Excavation of the pottery factory has produced evidence for sale of products to all parts of the world.
Caledonian Pottery. Ginger Beer bottles for two Glasgow firms and a water carafe made for Burkes, an Irish Whiskey manufacturer.
Caledonian Pottery. The three cream pots shown here were all produced for the Galloway Creamery in Stranraer.
Caledonian Pottery. The base of a Hartley’s Jam Jar with the distinctive lighthouse as part of the stamp. Liverpool jam manufacturer W P Hartley was running the pottery by 1888, ensuring its own supply of jam jars in various sizes, but also continuing the other product runs.
Caledonian Pottery. Money Boxes. The pottery produced a range of money box in various shapes. From left to right, a human head, kittens in a basket and a bear.
Caledonian Pottery. An elephant money box fired once, and discarded as the elephant has lost his trunk. To the right are broken pieces of a fully glazed elephant.
Caledonian Pottery. A fragment of a money box.
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