Lordbud
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I've basically dug creekbank dumps say 95% of the time.
With all the movement, dirt falling down the bank, creek action in the winter, one is lucky to find
a strict "use layer", but the use layers are there if one is willing to clear some brush, cut through poison oak
roots and so forth.
Some of the better bottles can be strays up the bank from the main dump.
Recently went down The Creek with my old digging partner checking out all of our old sites from
20 - 30 years ago: the Trough dump, PG&E dump, Yuba Street, the Wash-out dump, China Camp, et cetera.
They were all recognizable by us, but there was almost nothing on the surface to indicate to anyone just
walking by that "hey here's an old dump". The way fill was dumped along the creek there are no doubt
dumps 5, 10 or more feet back into the creekbank, from when the Creek ran wild before the 1930s when it was dammed up in the mountains and somewhat channelized (although it is mostly "natural" compared to the other creeks in the area.
The only other "dump" I've had experience with was digging through 1906 Earthquake landfill in San Francisco
which was spotting chips of glass and rust and brick on the surface of the soil and just digging down and outwards until bottles started to come out. Heavy on bricks, cement chunks, rusted metal -- basically the ruins
hauled from downtown S.F. to low lying land near the Bay shore. Coolest thing was finding an intact, undamaged hutch in the middle of a pile of bricks about three feet under the surface. It was a Popular Soda
Works S. F. hutch with "Pop" embossed on the base.
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RE: Bottle Dump Advice - 
P.S. Thanks for the slideshow! 
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