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"Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 5:33:03 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1366 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Finally got out for my first dig of the year ( had to drive south in to Mass. to find thawed land). Last weekend I had sent out 23 "letters of introduction" to properties that I had scouted out in an old village section of a town down there. My buddy and I went out to those addresses this morning, and only got to 3 houses so far, and got 1 "no" and 2 "yeses". So we spent the day probing for privies on those two properties. One of those properties yielded nothing, but the other one we did pretty good at. Here is the back of that house. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com Post #: 1

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 5:36:23 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1366 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Probed all the corners and along the back property line with lots of "fill" wasting some of my time, thinking it might be a privy, but it would just be ashy coal, with bits of 1920s trash, where they had filled in the lot to level it off. At one spot, where you see the white bucket in the photo above, the probe sunk down pretty good, and I wound up digging out what I think was a small 3 foot deep privy which had only a fill layer, and then a bottom of wet sand, and nothing below it. That took a couple of hours to dig, and patch back up. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 2

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 5:39:47 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1366 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline So I turned back to the back property line again, and if you look close in the center of the photo you can see a pile of dead brush and branches. I hadn't directly through that wood pile the first time around. So I stood on the branch pile and probed down through it, and I could feel buried trash for sure. I had found pockets of screw tops buried around that branch pile, so I figured it may be more of the same. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 3

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 5:42:02 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1366 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Just about six inches under the soil I pulled up a Davis Vegetable Pain killer aqua tool top, and 4 or 5 other 1880s unembossed bottles! Pretty psyched, because I could tell it hadn't been dug before, and the age wasn't pontil, but it was good enough for a first day of the season dig :) Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 4

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 5:46:02 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1366 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline I was just using a short probe and a potato rake, and pulling up bottles out of the hole pretty easy. The house was built in 1835, so it has pontil potential. The bad news is the owner had to leave, so we had to leave after just 10 minutes in the hole, the good news is they said we can come back. I'm estimating it is a clean out hole, just a foot or so deep, maybe 10' x 10'. This one was my best of the day, John Sullivan Apothecary Boston, in milk glass. Not rare, but I've never dug one, and I collect colored druggists! Wish me luck when I finish this one up, maybe next weekend, I'm sure there's a good amount more to dig, and I'd love to get some pontiled stuff out of it. Happy Easter ! Bram Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 5

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 7:45:49 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1673 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: online       Good luck on your return visit and congrats on that sweet druggist bottle.Doug _____________________________ I WOULD LIKE TO BUY OR TRADE FOR YOUR COLORED,AND OR EMBOSSED CATHEDRAL PEPPERSAUCE BOTTLES.I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR EMBOSSED MIDWESTERN ALES IN ANY COLOR. (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 6

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 7:53:09 PM    madman   Posts: 4822 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey bram very nice man wow! mike (in reply to appliedlips) Post #: 7

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 8:03:00 PM    idigjars Posts: 1309 Joined: 12/24/2004 From: Michigan Status: offline Good luck Bram!  Congrats on your druggist bottle and keep us posted on your return visit.    Paul (in reply to madman) Post #: 8

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/22/2008 11:51:06 PM    kastoo   Posts: 1252 Joined: 9/7/2004 From: Lagrange, GA Status: offline wow, that milk glass pharm is sweet! (in reply to idigjars) Post #: 9

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/23/2008 12:23:37 AM    Jim Posts: 2387 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Looking good, Bram. I always liked those milk glass Sullivan bottles. Good luck with the rest of the dig! ~Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 10

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/23/2008 7:18:06 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1366 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Thanks guys. It's fun to dig a keeper for the first time in while. It's also fun to "know" that there is more to be dug, like I said, we only dug for 10 minutes and had to leave because the property owner had to leave. Now I have to wait a week, and not get my hopes too high and set myself up for a let down :) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to Jim) Post #: 11

RE: "Good Saturday" probin' - 3/24/2008 10:16:33 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1682 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline It's about time you got your spring fix going!  Tough winter for you guys up north!  Nice milk glass druggist, I haven't dug one yet. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 12

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