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

[RatherBeDigging]

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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[Jeff H]

You have some really nice finds there!

 

[Bamasteve]

Very nice assortment, congrats!

 

[robertk]

That’s a really nice bunch of finds — and all because you dug the junky signal! Nicely done!

 

[cajundetector]

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!!!

 

[pepperj]

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?

 

[RatherBeDigging]

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.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very nice !

 

[oldmxrat]

That's a really nice bunch of recoveries, congrats!

 

[ArfieBoy]

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

 

[RatherBeDigging]

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.

 

[Digger RJ]

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!!!