Key Facts

• The bottle was discovered in a Cambridge car park which is being redeveloped.
• The archaeologists think the area may have been a blacksmith's workshop in the past.
• The soft drink bottle, believed to be from the 1890s, was found in one piece, which is rare.
• Normally, these types of bottles are broken by children to get the small marble housed inside.
• The archaeological dig is also helping to give insights about the people who once lived there and their social status.
• The redevelopment project plans to transform the Grafton shopping centre into a science hub with labs and offices.
• The bottle still contained the marble, which was used to keep the fizz from escaping.
• The archaeologists found evidences of a forge and an anvil, indicating that part of the area may have been a blacksmith's workshop.