Container - Bottle, Burke's Pale Ale, excavated from cesspit behind All England Eleven Hotel, Port Melbourne, 1850s

Historical information

When house in Rouse Street was demolished in November 1997, Peter Libbis obtained this from the bottle diggers who emptied the former cesspit behind All England Eleven Hotel.

Physical description

Beer bottle c1850-60s Burke's Pale Ale. Dug from cesspit behind All England Eleven Hotel, in Little Princes lane (ref photos of cesspit excavation 895)/ Dark green, fragments of label.

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