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RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 10:36:01 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1405 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Here is the back of the house and yard, I probed the whole thing before I located the privy up next to the house in an "L" of the house... Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 21

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 10:37:35 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1405 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Here is the L of the house. The trash went about 2-3 feet deep, lots of roots, and no defined walls to the privy, other than the house foundation itself... Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 22

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 10:39:35 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1405 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Boy seeing these pictures is TORTURE.. Cant wait to dig. This one is just about the extent of the hole. I couldnt square it off very much because of some thick roots. There was no sod to replace, because it was a leaf covered area, maybe 6" of rotted leaves, mulching down what would have been grass... Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 23

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 10:42:06 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1405 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline AS FOUND.. Aqua umbrella IRON PONTIL ( Ever seen one?) It had no damage, but after a few month it developed a large crack while on my shelf. I'm wondering if they discovered that using an iron pontil on such a small bottle created instability , so they changed and used a smaller pontil rod surface... just a thought. Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 24

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 10:44:40 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1405 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Four of the better finds, a very rare Wetherells Sarsaparilla from Exeter, with patent date embossed on the SIDE SHOULDER of the bottle, as well as a chamferred base, very unique. Also the IP umbrella, a smooth base umbrella and a nice US Treasury ink. What a fun dig... Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 25

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 10:45:36 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1405 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline One of my good luck charms :) last picture, I promise take care, Bram Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 26

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/14/2006 11:19:22 PM    capsoda Posts: 7924 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Hey Bram, Check ot maps of the business district of local towns. The bars, hotels and line houses usually had deep two or three holers and they are usually full of great stuff. Some of them may even have trash pits full. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 27

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/21/2006 7:42:39 PM    appliedlips Posts: 1711 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline Bram, Cool topic,I believe I emailed you after a trip to Dover a year and a half ago.Me and my father in law dug several on a lot in Dover.The lot was 1700's but had an 1880's house on the backside of the lot.We found two early holes,both were barrel lined and dated back to 1830 or older.Both had been dipped.One produced no whole bottles but had shards of a Charter Oak flask and a beaded edge double eagle.The other produced a Stoddard whiskey,a couple blackglass ales and a few more bottles.Both were about 4 ft. deep.The encouraging sign was a 1885-1910 woodliner 4X6' rectangle and went 6 or 7 feet deep.It produced alot of bottles with a couple nicely colored blob beers the best finds.It showed no sign of being dipped and had a healthy seed layer for even a midwestern privy.I probed a stone liner on the lot next door that I bottomed a six foot probe in.Never got a chance to dig it as it rained for the last 2 days of the trip.You keep at it and you will find that one 1830's-60's hole that make all the midwest and N.Y. diggers jealous.Take care,Doug (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 28

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/23/2006 8:42:59 AM    bottleslayer   Posts: 6 Joined: 2/22/2006 Status: offline whats down easter digger complaining about? I don't know how to probe or realy a place to probe! Does Maine got any clubs up Bangor way? (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 29

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/23/2006 10:18:57 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline dont have any ideas of shows or clubs up there but i bet there`s some fine diggin up those parts and probably fairly undug i found some broken pontils down bye the river up there in my first ten minutes on foot the first time i went up there.. sure would love to dig a perkins pulmanary balsam op...up there... < Message edited by portland med. man -- 2/23/2006 10:21:24 PM > (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 30

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/23/2006 11:21:20 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey John... Excuse me, but did you say "RIVER" Water? Pontil?... Diving? Finding? Bottles? Underwater? I think I'm having an orgasm................ Maybe a "WWWWET" dream... get it (water, diving, bottles...) get it? Wayne < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 2/23/2006 11:22:46 PM > (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 31

RE: Privy digging in New England - 2/23/2006 11:27:56 PM    capsoda Posts: 7924 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Hey Wayne, Snow is water. Throw some bottles out in the snow and go divin in a snow bank. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 32

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