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ehk
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Hi
I went out today metal detecting on a small sloped rise and did not find much but a shotgun shell and lots of bits of old buried fence wire. Well I decided to goto a different location, specifically around a swamp which is at the bottom of this low hill because I remember I had seen a metal pail there or something.
I got there and took a "closer" look and discovered a few things. First of all the swamp at this spot is below a farm field, the edge of the farm field is 3-6 feet up in places. I went down (ive explored this area many times as i'm always around this swamp) but never really took notice of any old debris until the last few days when ive been reading about bottles, farmers dumps, privies etc.
Basically theres an area bound on 2 sides by this farm field, and in the opposit direction it goes close to the creek passing through the swamp. An area about 15 x 10 feet is well loaded with old "junk". Found the old metal pail, but found parts of some type of old rusted vehicle, possibly a motorcycle or part of a tractor. I found a 1971 ontario licence plate (i am in ontario), really rusted. Theres the remains of the metal of a old short fridge and inside it it had this grey silver box like thing that said "fridgidare" in it (pretty modernish maybe 20 years old?).
The interesting part is under all of this (including under the dirt of the slope up tot he farm field etc) theres broken bottles, alot of them. 90% seems to be broken from what I can see, and this is in a swampy area so theres all kinds of dead plant material covering it all so theres actually alot under there i just goto move the dead weed brush away.
So I take it this was a farmers dump once (no farmer here anymore).
I brought a few things home and cleaned them up a bit. 1 is a broken bottle bottom, very very pale blue and has a huge S outline on the bottom with a circle around it. 2nd piece is the "label" portion of a clear glass beer bottle with the raised lettering stamped on it "Iroquios br'G. co: Buffalo" with a indian chief face in the middle. I looked up that and i came up with the place that had been making those bottles in buffalo, ny (which is bout hour and half away from here) shut down their beermaking place in 1972.
Then the last bottle is a 6 inch amber colour bottle of CERTO "registered trade-mark" with the "for 1/2 bottle pour here" letters on the back side. I looked this up too and its possibly from 1950's? (neat)
Wondering if anyone know anything about those 3 bottle types?
I'm going back tommorrow to remove the dead plant material, gloves and im gonna see what more of the bottles (whole or broken) that i can find.
ehk
I went out today metal detecting on a small sloped rise and did not find much but a shotgun shell and lots of bits of old buried fence wire. Well I decided to goto a different location, specifically around a swamp which is at the bottom of this low hill because I remember I had seen a metal pail there or something.
I got there and took a "closer" look and discovered a few things. First of all the swamp at this spot is below a farm field, the edge of the farm field is 3-6 feet up in places. I went down (ive explored this area many times as i'm always around this swamp) but never really took notice of any old debris until the last few days when ive been reading about bottles, farmers dumps, privies etc.
Basically theres an area bound on 2 sides by this farm field, and in the opposit direction it goes close to the creek passing through the swamp. An area about 15 x 10 feet is well loaded with old "junk". Found the old metal pail, but found parts of some type of old rusted vehicle, possibly a motorcycle or part of a tractor. I found a 1971 ontario licence plate (i am in ontario), really rusted. Theres the remains of the metal of a old short fridge and inside it it had this grey silver box like thing that said "fridgidare" in it (pretty modernish maybe 20 years old?).
The interesting part is under all of this (including under the dirt of the slope up tot he farm field etc) theres broken bottles, alot of them. 90% seems to be broken from what I can see, and this is in a swampy area so theres all kinds of dead plant material covering it all so theres actually alot under there i just goto move the dead weed brush away.
So I take it this was a farmers dump once (no farmer here anymore).
I brought a few things home and cleaned them up a bit. 1 is a broken bottle bottom, very very pale blue and has a huge S outline on the bottom with a circle around it. 2nd piece is the "label" portion of a clear glass beer bottle with the raised lettering stamped on it "Iroquios br'G. co: Buffalo" with a indian chief face in the middle. I looked up that and i came up with the place that had been making those bottles in buffalo, ny (which is bout hour and half away from here) shut down their beermaking place in 1972.
Then the last bottle is a 6 inch amber colour bottle of CERTO "registered trade-mark" with the "for 1/2 bottle pour here" letters on the back side. I looked this up too and its possibly from 1950's? (neat)
Wondering if anyone know anything about those 3 bottle types?
I'm going back tommorrow to remove the dead plant material, gloves and im gonna see what more of the bottles (whole or broken) that i can find.
ehk
the swamp itself is walkable in that area but other spots you will probably sink in a foot. Last winter when we did not have much snow i was following rabbit tracks through the swamp (i normally dont go in it because youll sink right in) i went in in one spot halfway to my knee.. after that I did not walk to much in the swamp heh There is stuff a few inches down into the soil below the surface, but i have not dug at this point so i dont know how far the bottles and things may go.
