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Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/9/2008 10:27:46 PM    agbkyle   Posts: 17 Joined: 7/5/2008 Status: offline Yep, I went to an old site I researched with the intent of metal detecting. Is now remnants in the woods of a cotton mill that was built in 1808. Found a ton of broken glass, took the bottoms home to research them and found them to be early 1900's. Went back today and all I did was dig for bottles. Heck I love anything that's old. Anyway, I did manage to pull out quite a few old intact bottles. It was a 2 hour outing and I only dug a very small area and only got as far down as maybe a foot. I'll be hunting this spot for a while now as there's tons more to be found here. Being new to bottle digging I'm afraid of smashing my shovel through a good one. Any advise on how to dig as to not break any in the process? And next time I'll wear gloves as I did slice the tip of my finger, not badly but what would worry me is if there were poison on old poison bottles or would that be washed away by now? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/9/2008 10:30:02 PM    agbkyle   Posts: 17 Joined: 7/5/2008 Status: offline Here's a photo of one of the spots there where I first found hundreds of pieces of broken glass. Attachment (1) (in reply to agbkyle) Post #: 2

RE: Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/9/2008 10:36:08 PM    agbkyle   Posts: 17 Joined: 7/5/2008 Status: offline Here's the broken glass I first took home. This is what sent me back just to bottle dig Attachment (1) (in reply to agbkyle) Post #: 3

RE: Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/10/2008 9:43:33 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1454 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Ha! Another one has ventured over to the dark side. :) Be careful, bottle digging is addictive. Looks like you're into 1930s trash , but that foundation looks ancient, so there are early bottles buried around there somewhere, good luck! _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to agbkyle) Post #: 4

RE: Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/10/2008 10:17:40 AM    glass man Posts: 2006 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline MORE! MORE! MORE! THANK YOU FOR THE PICTURES! JAMIE _____________________________ A lady just came from COLUBIA SHE smiled cause I did not understand THEN she held out some marijuana,oh ho I said "NO NO ",I don't smoke it no more I'M tired of waking up on the floor THEN IT MAKES IT HARD TO FIND THE DOOR! RINGO STARR, NO NO SONG (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 5

RE: Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/10/2008 7:58:07 PM    agbkyle   Posts: 17 Joined: 7/5/2008 Status: offline Hit my spot again today since I had the day off from work. This place is a bottle diggers dream. Spent 3 hours here and most of these were on the surface or at the most 4 to 6 inches deep. Also only spent time around 3 or 4 very small areas and glass is scattered over at least a 1/4 acre. Most of what I'm finding so far are Hazel-Atlas and Anchor Hocking. I just need to dig deeper. Attachment (1) (in reply to glass man) Post #: 6

RE: Metal dectector guy turned bottle digger - 11/10/2008 8:04:13 PM    madman   Posts: 4960 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey tony, very nice looks like early 40s, you should get a probe so you can check the depth of the dump, keep digging mike _____________________________ always looking for eastern TENN sodas, milks and pharms, also anything from TOLEDO OHIO and MARION VA. (in reply to agbkyle) Post #: 7

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