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where??how??? - 2/6/2012 5:17:54 PM   
crowntopking

 

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Status: offline 		how do you find old bottle dumps?
i live in ky if that helps any
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RE: where??how??? - 2/6/2012 5:21:17 PM   
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RE: where??how??? - 2/6/2012 5:22:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good luck finding any around Lexington that haven't already been dug. We usually have to wait for development to expose anything new. The best way to get decent bottles in this town is to dig privies... but there are a LOT (thousands) of those that have already been dug as well.

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RE: where??how??? - 2/6/2012 5:55:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just checked out your youtube videos. Looks like you're off to a decent start! Being that you are a teenager, you may be able to get permissions fairly easily. Just be careful out there and try to always have someone with you... especially if you're down anywhere between 3rd and 7th streets!!! Hit me up sometime and we will fling some dirt.

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RE: where??how??? - 2/6/2012 7:59:14 PM   
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ORIGINAL: lexdigger

Good luck finding any around Lexington that haven't already been dug. We usually have to wait for development to expose anything new. The best way to get decent bottles in this town is to dig privies... but there are a LOT (thousands) of those that have already been dug as well.
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RE: where??how??? - 2/6/2012 8:50:32 PM   
lexdigger

 

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Status: offline 		This area has been hit hard over the past 40 years. Can get lucky occasionally, but not often.

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RE: where??how??? - 2/7/2012 10:02:41 PM   
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From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine
Status: offline 		Go to the library, with your cell phone camera if you have one. Go in to the reference section, and find the oldest atlases or maps of your town, the ones that show where homes were located. Find the oldest neighborhoods, then tour the neighborhood, like a burglar, looking at the homes, reconstructing in your head, what it looked like 120 years ago.
Some neighborhoods or maybe 2 or 3 older homes may have an area, away from the house, where they all dumped their trash, usually down in a gully or stream, some where where it would have made sense to dump their trash, down hill, in an out of the way place, on a spot where the land couldn't really be used for anything else ( garden, livestock etc).
Sometimes these places are overgrown with briars and/or bamboo, and are hard to get in to. You have to crawl through the mud sometimes.
Look for pieces or old iron sticking up through the ground, old barrel tines, plow parts etc.
If you are lucky, you may find a spot that no one else has bothered to dig, because it is just too much work, and the briars can be tough.
good luck

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RE: where??how??? - 2/11/2012 11:30:42 AM   
lexdigger

 

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Status: offline 		Great advice Bram. The old Plat Maps are better than the Sanborns (in my opinion). The only problem with digging in this town is finding something that has not already been dug. You know how it goes though... no one can find them ALL. Still plenty left to be dug out there for the diligent and determined digger.

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