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    Out prospecting part 3!

    Well, quite a day. I had no less than ten sites lined up to check out, started at 8am and went to go get 'em. The first site yielded a dump, and I did a bit of diggin' It looked 40's, all clear glass except for one BIM Lung Tonic. Moved on to the next site. Walked for miles in boiling sunshine...
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    Out prospecting part 2

    Well it rained all day, so I didn't dig. I went walking to find new sites...I got soaked to the skin. Still, it's always good to be out breathing fresh air. Found a fantastic site. The "fill" on the right of the wall is all dump material. Lots of glass in it. There was a house on the opposite...
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    Weepers and Keepers..

    Got out digging today, great, but it wasn't all good. Here's my dig, it's down on the right down a slope.. Where the picture was taken used to be the site of a farm, the forested area was fields once...
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    ABM Identification

    Hi, I have a question.. I've always thought that identifiying an ABM bottle was simple: if it had a through-the-lip seam it was ABM, if not then it was BIM. I'd like to know if there were any early ABM achines that didn't produce a seam all the way up, and that some bottles that we think...
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    Great dig today

    Well, I braved snow and freezing windto go digging today. It was a looong walk to the dig through on forest trails...
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    Out prospecting

    Hi all, I've been out all day checking a number of old farms in the forests near here. The area used to be sheep farms, but in the 1880's they bought the whole area to build resevoirs to feed Manchester (England). to avoid farms in the catchment area polluting the water, they evicted everyone...
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    Nice find on Sunday

    Hi, I dug this nice inhaler at the weekend. Condition isn't good, glaze is very craked, iron stained and a chip in the bottom, but a real character piece..
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    Started Digging again

    Hi all, this is my first post so here goes.. I live in England, and have just started digging again after a break of 25 years. I've moved to the hills, and there are lots of places to look. There are lots of abandoned farms in the forests. I found an old house, and quickly found the dump.

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