Late1800s or early 1900S (CISTERN WELL)

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Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

Cool finds. What is the last container in the last picture? HH Burdie
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

It is a PONDS milk glass bottle still with the lid !! ;D
Thanks
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

Good lookin' glass OKIE,I've got an old dump site I'm gonna have to go back to now,almost nothin' but bottle's.Thank's for the reminder!Any thought of trying to see what's at the bottom maybe?HH!!
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

Great bottles OKIE!

Wonder what's hiding down in that cistern! :o

;)
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

Did these finds come out of the cistern or nearby? I am wondering how you got them out? Monty
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

didn't someone find a cache in one of those old Ponds jars on here once? maybe even more than once....nice finds

HH
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

Get yourself a rope and a 250 lb pull magnet.....lower a lantern down first on a rope and stand at the top with binoculars ......see anything good?????.......how deep is it???? How much water in bottom???......more important ...how wide is it??? Big enough to go down???? :)
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

I'm not sure we are talking the same language here. Cisterns are abundant on old farms here in OK. A cistern as opposed to a well is a dug out reservoir that catches and holds rainwater. It is usually found under a porch or along side the kitchen of an old farmhouse where a handpump is used to remove the water. It's usually about 10X10' wide and about 10' deep with some kind of wooden cover over it. The water from a cistern had to be boiled to drink or cook with and it was most commonly used for bathing and washing clothes, etc, something that required a lot of water. Usually the well was seperate if the farmhouse had both which was pretty common. A well, on the other hand could be dug or drilled. If dug it was usually about 4' circular and not over 40 or 50 feet deep, just deep enough to get into the water table. A drilled well was only about a foot and a half wide and could be over a hundred feet deep. The picture looks like a drilled well. ??? Monty
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (SISTERN WELL)

Monty, yup, it's a well. I've been out there with him and it's brick-lined with some pretty old style bricks. The well and the remains of a chimney are all that are left to indicate a homesite.

Down here in southeast OK there are a lot of cisterns as well. This is one of the nicer old wells I've seen, as far as condition of the shaft. We'll drop him down there and get us a good view! ;D
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (CISTERN WELL)

Those are some neat bottles and a lot of those old homesteads are good hunting if you can edge out some of the scrap laying around. Of course some of those scraps are called relics. ;)
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (CISTERN WELL)

What drives me nuts about hunting around old abandoned houses is all the metal flashing that falls off the roof. It all puts out a signal as coins or silver unless it's very large. Old rusty nails are a bane too. They do the same thing because of the halo effect. You dig about half way down and recheck the hole and find out it's iron! It's slow going and sometimes takes several days just to get the junk off before you can get serious. But if you take the time it can be rewarding....or so I've read. I haven't had the patience! ::) Monty
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (CISTERN WELL)

You need to find somone with a underwater cam for fishing they have lights on them and you could see what is around the bottom of the cistern. I have one but I am too far away to help.
 

Re: Late1800's or early 1900'S (CISTERN WELL)

Forgot to add: If the walls are brick lined it is a hand dug well and shouldn't be over about 40'deep. They didn't dig them much deeper than that because of lack of oxygen in the bottom, so be very careful! Some of those old wells stopped producing and it is possible to pump one dry....just a thought. Monty
 

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