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Sunday afternoon dig - continued

In the bottle dump I was digging this summer it was kinda the same way, at points. I would find cork medicines, karl hutter top bottles, and bottle cap types, usually right in the bottom of the holes. I also found lots of square and round nails, pieces of pipes, building materials, thick layers...
- zachary
- Post #5
- Oct 22, 2006
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Pipe from 1st privy**NICE ONE TOO!!!

I found several like that. One had Glascow on it and the other had GERMAN then the rest of the stem was broke off. The funny thing was, that according to a archaeology book I had, TD was supposed to be a British maker of pipes.
- zachary
- Post #5
- Oct 12, 2006
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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writing bottle booklet

Hello, Would like to know if anyone has bottles from Glens Falls area. To be honest I'm not looking to buy them but do history on them. Finding so many local ones in my yard has got me doing a lot of research. I would like to do a short history on them for the local history room...
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- Thread
- Oct 1, 2006
- Replies: 2
- Forum: General Chat
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summer dig

i did find part of a log cabin bitters, I think, there were pieces of bottle with log and part of bitt in one of the holes. I did find a PAINES CELERY COMPOUND and HAGEES CORDIAL COD-LIVER BOTTLE though.
- zachary
- Post #6
- Sep 28, 2006
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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summer dig

yeah local stuff is always fun, all the research I did in it I tried to include my son in. He was really helpful and actually made it fun.
- zachary
- Post #3
- Sep 28, 2006
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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summer dig

I spent most of the summer, off and on, digging in my backyard. Must of been part of a old dump in the late 1800s to about the twenties. I found cork type bottles, lightning stopper types, a few with bottle caps still on, and a few with most of their paper labels intact! I figured since we...
- zachary
- Thread
- Sep 28, 2006
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Digging and Finding