Cistern Glass

In May 1997 a cistern filled with household debris was exposed during the expansion of the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s City Campus Student Union. The top of the cistern had been removed by prior construction, leaving approximately half of the feature untouched. After 1890, the cistern stopped functioning as a residential water storage system and became a refuse pit. The recovered artifacts consist of glass bottles, metal artifacts, faunal remains, personal items, and a wide variety of ceramics. In 2016, I began working on the glass items specificly the medicinal ones. This page is going to include my research on the glass artifacts.