Bass
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- Jan 20, 2013
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First of all, let me say to my good friends and fellow diggers to the north I am truly sorry if you are unable to dig due to frozen ground/snow/cold temperatures or whatever it may be. For us in the south, this is digging season. With that said, i stumbled upon a small depression in the ground today and probed it. Could feel debris about 10 inches down. Starting digging and found trash like you've never seen. Brick, wire, broken hobbleskirt cokes and scrap iron. It was a slow process at first.
Found a couple newer bottles in this debris including a small screw top perfume, a small medicine, and another shoe polish or whatever and it was cracked.. I can't emphasize enough the amount of junk that was in this layer. I probed again and felt more brick about 2 feet down. I found a small fishing reel (on the right in the photo) a pocket knife, a rawleigh's bottle and an indian head penny.
I thought i was done at this point but probed again and felt more brick about 2-3 feet deeper. The dirt started getting to be the consistency of peanut butter and the hole was very narrow. Being by myself, it was difficult just getting the dirt out of the hole. Then i started finding some broken bottles that i would have loved to have had, including a very large wild cherry bitters. And a broken sauce.
To my surprise, i also found another indian head penny. Every bottle i found had been broken. There were hole bricks mixed in as well, so easy to see how they were broken.
And finally a whole sauce
Also found a chipped lip sanford ink. I had to leave due to running out of time but will be back on monday to finish the hole.
Oh, one of the pennies was 1882, and can't read the date on the other one. Thanks for looking and happy hunting.
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Found a couple newer bottles in this debris including a small screw top perfume, a small medicine, and another shoe polish or whatever and it was cracked.. I can't emphasize enough the amount of junk that was in this layer. I probed again and felt more brick about 2 feet down. I found a small fishing reel (on the right in the photo) a pocket knife, a rawleigh's bottle and an indian head penny.
I thought i was done at this point but probed again and felt more brick about 2-3 feet deeper. The dirt started getting to be the consistency of peanut butter and the hole was very narrow. Being by myself, it was difficult just getting the dirt out of the hole. Then i started finding some broken bottles that i would have loved to have had, including a very large wild cherry bitters. And a broken sauce.
To my surprise, i also found another indian head penny. Every bottle i found had been broken. There were hole bricks mixed in as well, so easy to see how they were broken.
And finally a whole sauce
Also found a chipped lip sanford ink. I had to leave due to running out of time but will be back on monday to finish the hole.
Oh, one of the pennies was 1882, and can't read the date on the other one. Thanks for looking and happy hunting.
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