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When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/4/2007 9:33:08 PM    akronmarbles   Posts: 55 Joined: 7/30/2006 From: Akron, Ohio Status: offline I went to check out a construction site after work and found a privy which had the top 4 feet graded off of it. The bottom was exposed with shards scattered everywhere - all of the glass was pontiled....damn. Well the bottom of the privy was soft compared to the surounding dirt and it looks like the tire of the earth grader sunk right down into the bottom and smashed about everything it contacted. The lone surviving 'puff' was just sticking out of the ground - a miracle that it survived. The double eagle flask would have been killer along with the cherry balsam bottle. The ceramic items were all freshly broken as well. Post #: 1

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/4/2007 9:45:53 PM    KentOhio   Posts: 746 Joined: 9/13/2004 Status: offline Excuse me while I vomit. (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 2

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/4/2007 10:22:51 PM    baltbottles   Posts: 968 Joined: 11/25/2002 From: Baltimore Maryland Status: offline Thats a sad site! _____________________________ Please visit my website at : www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 3

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 3:19:32 AM    bearswede Posts: 2912 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Ditto... _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to baltbottles) Post #: 4

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 8:20:23 AM    PhilaBottles Posts: 1003 Joined: 9/25/2005 From: philad.A Status: offline _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/user/iheartmykitten (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 5

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 8:58:09 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1483 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Oh my God... I think I'll just go slam my fingers in the car door!!! Wayne (in reply to PhilaBottles) Post #: 6

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 9:30:45 AM    CanadianBoy   Posts: 657 Joined: 7/25/2004 Status: offline Had a dump like that once looked like the bulldozer went over it again & again til everything was shards. Bummer. _____________________________ So many Dumps,so little time. So get DIGGING. I've been "DOWN IN THE DUMPS" since 1970. Never dug a dump, I didn't like. "May you all Dig well and Prosper" http://www.nexicom.net/~djackson/ Dave J. Ontario,Canada. (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 7

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 11:25:12 AM    towhead Posts: 914 Joined: 12/31/2004 Status: offline Wayne:  Slam your fingers in the car door....I can relate, I'm just gonna go and stick my tongue on the frosty car door handle!!!!!  _____________________________ J (in reply to CanadianBoy) Post #: 8

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 2:03:15 PM    chrisp   Posts: 26 Joined: 10/22/2006 Status: offline man , what a shame that is . on a brighter side , it makes all the surviving bottles worth even more. but , most of us dont do this for the money. we just cant let it get to us. we have to go out and save all the bottles before they meet this fate. "please forgive them Lord, they know not what they do" (in reply to towhead) Post #: 9

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 7:25:49 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3879 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline wow!  I hate when that happens! We found 4 broken flask's in a pit this winter one was a dark teal winter tree summer tree, I was ill, and a  light blue Washington, an anchor flask, and a jenny lind, we saved the pieces, to cry over when we are depressed haha! _____________________________ My web page. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story coming Feb & March. "Privies by the yard" www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 10

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 7:35:54 PM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline This would be a perfect example, though, of "what you don't know won't hurt you."  That flask would never have been known had it not been for the dozer.  That doesn't make it any less painful, but maybe there was still some onfi about the area that you could garner. Ok.  That's a bunch of baloney.  I found a flask like that in almost one piece except the neck.  Man was I mad. _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 11

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 9:19:38 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 929 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline Did you go ahead and dig it anyway? I know I would have! The pontil pits I've dug were full of mostly broken stuff anyway, so there's a chance all that was busted before the dozer drove over it. I've also found intact bottles laying in the tracks of very large dozers and trackhoes, so they can survive it. There's always a chance there was a good one down in the bottom corner or stuck to one of the walls. I think the honey dippers broke most of the pontil stuff in the town I dig in. Chris (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 12

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/5/2007 9:47:19 PM    bttlmark   Posts: 402 Joined: 11/23/2005 From: N.E. Florida Status: offline What a Bummer (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 13

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/6/2007 7:50:37 AM    akronmarbles   Posts: 55 Joined: 7/30/2006 From: Akron, Ohio Status: offline Yeah I dug it out - there might have been 2 feet of it left.  They were excavating in the same area yesterday so there might be a new pit showing if I'm lucky. The property had two houses - an 1870's  farm which they just tore down - it had 4 privies which I dug last fall. Right next to the road there was apparently an earlier house that sat right on the Ohio and Erie Canal - that's where the pontils came from. I have several pits lined up already for later in the spring......visions of pontils dancing in my head....lol (in reply to bttlmark) Post #: 14

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/6/2007 9:03:39 AM    Inkman   Posts: 51 Joined: 4/6/2007 Status: offline Ouch!  (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 15

RE: When dozers meet pontils.... - 4/10/2007 1:05:13 PM    houseman   Posts: 58 Joined: 7/22/2006 Status: offline I'm in a very similar situation to yours, Akronmarbles. I've had my eye on a vacant lot where I knew at least one house stood as early as the 1870's but didn't get a chance to go check it out very closely until last weekend. I found that a parking lot was recently put in on the front half of the lot and the lot was graded for another five or six feet behind the edge of the asphalt. I looked at the freshly bulldozed area and found some nice ash, pieces of glass, and the busted out slugplate of a very scarce local squat soda!! Of all things, why couldn't it have been some broken crown tops or ketchup bottles?!? I figure I'll try to get back this weekend to find the source of all the ash and try to dig out the rest of it. I'm hoping there's still something nice down there! (in reply to akronmarbles) Post #: 16

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