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    Is there any hope?:/

    Hi everyone! Hope your summer is going well:). Well anyway , there is a amazing bottle dump next to my house. It's located in a circle or gathering of trees and shrubs in the middle of a feild. My dad calls it a conservatory of trees. Anyway every Time the snow melts its seems to flood a bit in...
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    1860s/70's schoolhouse QUESTION

    Hi guys its Jake, recently I was doing some research and discovered that a one room schoolhouse was built near we're I live. The schoolhouse was built around the late 1860s and continued to be one intell 1955/6 when it was sold and later torn down. The schoolhouse sat on a triangular like peice...
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    Tips/help on finding bottles on a 1850s homestead

    Hi guys, since the snow is gone now and the ground isn't frozen I decided to venture around the area and came upon a house that was built in 1850. There is also a small stable (now a garage) and a 2nd small garage behind the main house. I found that there was a school house on the property which...
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    Any tips on digging farm field home sites?:)

    Hi everyone , I have stumbled upon 2 new spots which might have some bottles. One is a farm feild which a house once stood there in the 1800s , I found small pottery fragments on the surface. The 2nd spot is a somewhat of a embankment which once divided 2 farms . I found a brick and a hole lot...
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    Possible embankment dump question!

    WHi again, I'm very excited because I found a good site witch could have some bottles buried somewhere! The place that I found is some woods , it is lined with big old oak trees and once u r inside it it's huge! The land is very hilly and slopes down into a pond. A possible feild stone...
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    Headin out to a new spot.

    Hi guys, today I'm going to head out to some new woods across the farm feild , It looks very inviting with very old oak trees and a pond . The plat maps in my area are so mixed up so who knows there might be a old house foundation and some old bottles! Wish me luck:) -Jake .
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    Were are the bottles?

    Hi guys, I'm digging a possible privy in the woods , the house that once stood here was on a 1876 plat map, the privy is taking its shape As a large rectangle with wood lining it. Only some clay pottery and a old insulator so far I'm about 3 feet deep and I'm digging out the sides. My question...
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    We'r

    Hi guys, I'm digging a possible privy in the woods , the house that once stood here was on a 1876 plat map, the privy is taking its shape As a large rectangle with wood lining it. Only some clay pottery and a old insulator so far I'm about 3 feet deep and I'm digging out the sides. My question...
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    Bottle dump question!

    Hi guys, Iv been digging in the woods and been getting. Some better finds . However I'm about 2 in a half deep and hit chalk white soil it comes out in clumps and crumbles , I have found some cobalt stoneware crocks but many are broken . . Am I on the right path is there nother layer after...
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    Stoneware crock repair

    Hi guys, Iv found a beautiful cobalt design stoneware crock from the 1880's but it's broken but can be repaired . Anyone no what glue from a local craft or hobby store would work best for repairing it? Thanks and any help would be greatly appreciated! -Jake
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    Woodlined privy question

    Hi guys , I'm going back to the old homesite 1860s - 1870s house to continue digging. Iv dug about 4 feet or so and it keeps going down its lined with wood and is shaped like a rectangle it's long and a not wide can anyone shed some light on what I'm digging into? I see alit of black dirt and...
  12. J

    I'm going to bottle dig a 1860s/1870's farm house!:)

    Hi guys . I'm going to be digging the old 1870's farm house it was on a 1870's play map so who knows it could be older! Anyone know what I should expect to find like what kinds of bottles or any helpful tips ? I'm very new so I ask ALOT of questions:) thanks and wish me luck it's my first REAL...
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    Were is the privy?

    Hi guys , been exploring around my neighborhood lately and fuound a nice vacant price of land . It has a small grove of trees that opens up into a yard that is now a field. There are also some woods , I've researched the area and there was a house here in 1876. A old road is right near the woods...
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    Bottle dump question .... again :)

    Hi guys, well I have another question (what do you expect from a 13 year old bottle digger:). Anyway I am digging and hit something , it's a stoneware jug off to the side of the jug our 2 brown glass bottles both our early beer bottles but broken. The soil is now seems thicker then it was and u...
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    Stoneware jug question!

    Hi guys, I was digging around r woods today & found a stoneware jug:) sadly it was broken but I am going to repair it back together:). The jug has a brown top and handle , while the bottom half is white. It says in blue "4 and then blue ribbon brand" . Dose anyone no the date of age of it...
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    Bottle dump question.

    hi guys, quick question. Iv been digging in r woods 4 about a week or so. Well I found a new digging spot & I found my first blob top bottle but I only found the top part:( I also found a 1925 soda and some other interesting peicces I'm very confused because bottles that our from 1900 are by...
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    Bottle question.

    Hi guys! I am very excited , I listened to some of your comments and tips and kept digging and I found a older layer of bottles! The first one I pulled out was broken sadly but it was crudely embossed and had a tooled lip . Dose anyone no how old tooled lip or blob top bottles are , I'm only...
  18. J

    Old foundation & maybe some older bottles...

    Hi guys , well I found a older foundation in our woods again:) this one Is all fieldstone and rocks. I was just poking around there and happens to find a broken aqua blue bottle the seam line stops before the top part and neck I guess. Sadly I only found the top half. I did find a small dump or...
  19. J

    Found a English half penny.

    Hi , went digging in the yard and right Near our playset I dug up a 1916 half penny. Well u just never know what you our gonna find. I will keep on digging:) -Jake sorry I will upload a pic of it later!
  20. J

    Mabey this would help!

    Hi again, I'm Jake as most of you already know I'm a 13 year old with a passion for bottle digging and metal detecting ! I have some more information on the bottle dump that is by my property. In 2006 our house was built , we live in fairly new subdivision in Franklin wi (a small but rapidly...

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