The recently-discovered onion glass bottles represent a rare collection of well-preserved artifacts from the fleet. "These bottles are very fragile, and for them to survive the destruction of the ...

The onion glass bottles represent a rare collection of well-preserved artifacts from the fleet. The onion bottles were empty upon retrieval, but the thin-glass bottles likely contained an ...

"The 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet was lost at sea along Florida’s east coast after encountering a hurricane." Ard called the bottles a "rare" intact discovery, and noted that the drinking vessels ...

“Onion bottles would have been carried as cargo and would have also been used by crew and passengers onboard.” The official also stressed how important the Spanish treasure fleet was to global ...