Gold ring leads to digging w. a backhoe

[twowheelfan]

Nice one! its funny how the gold looks just the same after however long in the ground. I found a gold ring in the use layer of a privy and it was a sparkly new as the day it was made (1856) not hard at all to spot in the muck.

 

[RIBottleguy]

Thanks everyone! Jack, the dump here never goes more than 3 feet deep, so it's pretty safe! I have been to dumps with massive overhangs, and they are scary!

 

[timmy]

Nice finds for sure! Congrats! You should probably give "The Ring" back to Gollum?

 

[tftfan]

Thanks for the pics ! Nice finds.

 

[mctaggart67]

Great finds. The Montreal medicine particularly intrigues me for obvious reasons (see my signature below). I wonder if it found its way down to Rhode Island with a migrant Quebecois worker, since thousands and thousands left Quebec for steady employment in New England's factories during the latter half of the 1800s.

 

[tigue710]

way to go! A backhoe sure makes digging these type of dumps a lot more easy. It's nice to create a wall you can dig into and the let machine handle the over burden and tailing. An overzealous operator smashed a beautiful 2 gallon or so pontiled new England Demijohn right before my eyes once... to imagine it even survived just to have that happen! I was getting tired and slacking off because the finds were sparse and not to good in the section of the dump we were in, the rest is history...

 

[DIGS CHESCO]

Cool dig! That was very honest of you giving the ring to the property owner, I hope he waived his fee for you.

 

[Penn Digger]

Nice story. Thanks for sharing. We have used heavy equipment on quite a few digs. Yes, you always worry about the damage that can be done. On the flip side, a weeks worth of hand digging can be equaled in a very short time. Please keep the posts coming.

PD

 

[David Fertig]

I like that Consolidated crown.

 

[JohnDeereMoxie]

AWESOME story and finds. Keep up the good work. I might have to use someone's backhoe at a dump I know of, they capped it off with rocks