Hi all you revered experts! I hope you can help me...I'm trying to guess the best place that the early household dump, or privy, would have been at my farm. Here's a pic from the air, fuzzy I'm afraid. I've labeled where the existing features are. The place where I marked Dump is where...
Hi all. I have a spot beside my barn that showed a lot of shards. I dug down and found quite a few intact bottles, and dozens of these small screw cap vials. The bottles are mostly veterinary formulas for horses. I was wondering if anyone else has dug up these vials in such numbers?
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This is the bottle my son found while dismantling an old chimney. Being a 13 year old, he is more interested in its worth than its intrinsic historical value. He wants me to put it in Ebay--so I was hoping for some reserve bid guidelines. Here's a couple of pics from my scanner...
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I keep digging up these little glass things in my garden, -they appear to be plugs or bottle stoppers--some colourless, some aqua. A disk about 1" in diameter with a 3/4 inch protruding stopper part. What are they? Sorry, no pix at present. Also, what exactly is a pontil?---thanks--mal
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I am quickly becoming a digging fan as i have an old 'midden' or trash pit at the end of my property. We are moving an early log house to the site and i want to empty the pit of its treasures--although now i must wait til spring as its frozen solid (i'm in ontario CAN) The pit was actually...