The tiny bottle is a Victorian medicine bottle that once contained Norton's Camomile Pills. A popular patent remedy sold throughout Britain and across the Empire during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Embossed with the word "PILLS," these small square bottles were advertised as a cure for indigestion, headaches, stomach complaints and a host of other ailments. 

The company heavily promoted the pills as a gentle yet effective tonic, claiming they had been trusted by families for generations. 

Newspaper advertisements appeared regularly, describing them as the "Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach" and boasting of their popularity throughout the world.

This example likely dates from the late Victorian to Edwardian period, making it well over a hundred years old. 

To think that this little bottle was once carried in someone's pocket, kept in a medicine cabinet, or purchased from a local chemist over a century ago adds a real human connection to the find.

Not bad for a little bottle that had been hiding underground for more than a century.