Dug a junky signal and accidentally hit a late Victorian to 1930 ash dump.

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Finished I think... this dump out Saturday. It was an overall spread out a 2 week period because of work, other commitments and frankly it was a lot of ash, coal, semi burned wood and rusty cans to move in an orderly fashion.

Stove ash dump seems to date to late Victorian period to around 1930. Absolutely 0 post merger owens Illinois bottles with the <0> type mark. Oldest bottle (2nd picture) is a pink tint rolled lip type extract style bottle that dips at least back into the 1870s. No pontail. It's definitely post civil war.

Unexpected finds
*perfume atomizer sphere bottle
*hobnail punch cup
*pair of prink tint depression glass (only one shown)
*marble
*oval broach (you really can't see it well in photo)
*2 sharpe and Dohme poison bottles
*smelling salts bottle with stopper
*complest graniteware pot
*sugar?? Crock

Milk bottles are:
*Castanea Dairy Trenton,NJ circle slug quart
*Castanea Dairy Trenton, NJ quart with monogram on reverse ( I found 4 total but this one is best condition). Pint version was found not too far away a few years ago
*Alpha Dairy Trenton NJ circle slug (found 2 but photo is nicest). Alpha dairy Market was in Trenton's Washington Market until 1928 when the market was torn down. By the 1930s it had moved to Pennington NJ.

Sodas/beer
*1928 ish Asaysprings bottling works Bordentown NJ.
*applied lip crown top round bottom possibly British? With A on base
*early machine made British made R.B.B. Redfearn Brothers Barnesly (probably English ale). They used RBB in print on bottles 1916 to 1967
*early machine made John Kilner & Sons British made (probably Ale) bottle
*rest of Sodas are slick



Whole lot of slick tool top and early machine made medicine bottles not shown. Mostly whitall Tatum or another Millville NJ company.
 

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Finished I think... this dump out Saturday. It was an overall spread out a 2 week period because of work, other commitments and frankly it was a lot of ash, coal, semi burned wood and rusty cans to move in an orderly fashion.

Stove ash dump seems to date to late Victorian period to around 1930. Absolutely 0 post merger owens Illinois bottles with the <0> type mark. Oldest bottle (2nd picture) is a pink tint rolled lip type extract style bottle that dips at least back into the 1870s. No pontail. It's definitely post civil war.

Unexpected finds
*perfume atomizer sphere bottle
*hobnail punch cup
*pair of prink tint depression glass (only one shown)
*marble
*oval broach (you really can't see it well in photo)
*2 sharpe and Dohme poison bottles
*smelling salts bottle with stopper
*complest graniteware pot
*sugar?? Crock

Milk bottles are:
*Castanea Dairy Trenton,NJ circle slug quart
*Castanea Dairy Trenton, NJ quart with monogram on reverse ( I found 4 total but this one is best condition). Pint version was found not too far away a few years ago
*Alpha Dairy Trenton NJ circle slug (found 2 but photo is nicest). Alpha dairy Market was in Trenton's Washington Market until 1928 when the market was torn down. By the 1930s it had moved to Pennington NJ.

Sodas/beer
*ww1 ish Asaysprings bottling works Bordentown NJ
*applied lip crown top round bottom possibly British? With A on base
*early machine made British made R.B.B. Redfearn Brothers Barnesly (probably English ale). They used RBB in print on bottles 1916 to 1967
*early machine made John Kilner & Sons British made (probably Ale) bottle
*rest of Sodas are slick



Whole lot of slick tool top and early machine made medicine bottles not shown. Mostly whitall Tatum or another Millville NJ company.
Congrats!!!
 

Well done on the recoveries.
Like that you were able to get the stoppers to the bottles as well, always an extra bonus when digging.
Interesting assortment with a great mix of styles and colours (liking the ambers)
Missing is the beer/wine/whiskey types-were they broken or just not in the pit?
 

Well done on the recoveries.
Like that you were able to get the stoppers to the bottles as well, always an extra bonus when digging.
Interesting assortment with a great mix of styles and colours (liking the ambers)
Missing is the beer/wine/whiskey types-were they broken or just not in the pit?
There were a bunch of English ale bottles in there see 3rd photo. Assuming round bottom was a ginger ale. One 1928ish embossed soda from asaysprings bottling works. A broken tool top embossed hiers root beer. Hit a soda pocket of embossed Trenton beers (mercer bottling works and George Schaumloffel) all broken and one random prospect brewing Philadelphia amber blob broken. But the porcelain stopper is cool.
 

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Wow! Those are all beautiful bottles. Great finds. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
 

Wow! Those are all beautiful bottles. Great finds. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
Thank you. All because I dug a junky 17 signal that ended up being the bottom of a light bulb 💡. I think it's done but I'm going to walk the easy access strip with the detector tonight and see if you get any hits.
 

Finished I think... this dump out Saturday. It was an overall spread out a 2 week period because of work, other commitments and frankly it was a lot of ash, coal, semi burned wood and rusty cans to move in an orderly fashion.

Stove ash dump seems to date to late Victorian period to around 1930. Absolutely 0 post merger owens Illinois bottles with the <0> type mark. Oldest bottle (2nd picture) is a pink tint rolled lip type extract style bottle that dips at least back into the 1870s. No pontail. It's definitely post civil war.

Unexpected finds
*perfume atomizer sphere bottle
*hobnail punch cup
*pair of prink tint depression glass (only one shown)
*marble
*oval broach (you really can't see it well in photo)
*2 sharpe and Dohme poison bottles
*smelling salts bottle with stopper
*complest graniteware pot
*sugar?? Crock

Milk bottles are:
*Castanea Dairy Trenton,NJ circle slug quart
*Castanea Dairy Trenton, NJ quart with monogram on reverse ( I found 4 total but this one is best condition). Pint version was found not too far away a few years ago
*Alpha Dairy Trenton NJ circle slug (found 2 but photo is nicest). Alpha dairy Market was in Trenton's Washington Market until 1928 when the market was torn down. By the 1930s it had moved to Pennington NJ.

Sodas/beer
*ww1 ish Asaysprings bottling works Bordentown NJ
*applied lip crown top round bottom possibly British? With A on base
*early machine made British made R.B.B. Redfearn Brothers Barnesly (probably English ale). They used RBB in print on bottles 1916 to 1967
*early machine made John Kilner & Sons British made (probably Ale) bottle
*rest of Sodas are slick



Whole lot of slick tool top and early machine made medicine bottles not shown. Mostly whitall Tatum or another Millville NJ company.
Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!
 

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