JOETHECROW
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Okay,....as of last week we planned to try for a privy or two for a change,....The place we had lined up produced no definite privys, but we did find an old B.F. Stinson polish, just laying under a tree....Fred had to get back home, as we hadn't really planned an official dig, and he was over our way looking for a utility truck...Penn Digger Tom and I went to our permission, but got caught in a downpour...., went back after it let up and wandered the woods behind this property,....other than the stove polish, we couldn't locate anything.... we had no where to go and drove downtown....We pulled up at a demolition site, the wreckage was still there, but Penn Digger noticed two depressions in the lawn adjacent. We had the probe and it went right in like Ricks "Magic probe" video....We opened up the first spot with a clay cap and it was either a mighty shallow privy, or a trash pit,...a lot of glass, shoes, crockery.....but not too deep,.... maybe 3-4 feet...Meanwhile,....Penn Digger started on the other spot....We were ill prepared for any digs....One shovel, no camera and two potato rakes....We got both holes open,...Tom dug a small diameter test hole straight down four or five feet,....All the dirt outta that hole was black as night with seeds, fluffy ash, and glass.....unfortunately we had to leave our work till tommorow or tues. We were losing our light and hated to leave.... we placed lumber over our holes, covered them the best we could, but were just starting to find old bottles and glass....Me and Tom both have a long work day ahead tomorrow, but hope to get Fred and Laur and go back soon,....Here's a couple of pics of the stuff coming out of the upper layers ,....Dig pics to come!