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This is what the stream looked like before the rain. Looking upstream from the remains of the old dam. Most of the view would have been under a mill pond for much of the 19th century. In modern times the brook is usually 3 times the size shown here. Drought and beaver dropped the stream enough enough to expose new bottles.
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After I extracted the bottles laying exposed in the stream, I looked along the shore. I found a bunch of jars and beverage bottles in the shore mud exposed by past floods.
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I also probed the stream bank with my shovel.
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This tumbled out in like my third scoop.
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More to come, maybe after kids go to bed.
 

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Those are cool, now I gotta go stream scavenging!


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Dude that is flipping awesome. Can’t wait to to see more.


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Wow that's a LOT of embossing. Cool finds!
 

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Rising water and cold temp put wading on the back burner but I tried some digging in a gravel bank where the brook first enters the old pond bed.
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You can see the stream in the background and upper right tree roots show current surface. Surprisingly large bottles intact in the gravel.
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Punkatasset Farm quart. Concord Ma. Turn of century dairy farmon site of hill local tradition holds the Minutemen gathered there to await the British.
Farm would have been about 6 miles from where found, 2 stops away on the trolley line...
 

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A few more random. Clear fancy food jar (olives?), unmarked patent with glue or something, a side marked only Foley...20171115_121135.jpg
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Frank Jones Brewing Portsmouth NH but probably bottled in satellite plant in Boston at end of 19th century. The hole in the bank is the cavity that was a sealed empty metal container completely rusted away. Only mineral deposits marked the actual container itself.
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Even found what I believe is a turn of century ketchup bottle with early screw thread. No pic of the bottle but I can if anyone's interested. It's plain colorless. The pipe bowl landed there, not posed. You can see the gravel is full of charcoal and plaster and bits of coal and slag.
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Looks like a good spot to find bottles. Nice finds. The Foley is common, I find those here in Michigan often. LEON.
 

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Looks like a good spot to find bottles. Nice finds. The Foley is common, I find those here in Michigan often. LEON.

Yah I've got 2 Foleys already from very small area. Cool little bottles. I like em.
I guess it must have been a popular product. I know it was shipped all over. Such a tiny amount of stuff in each bottle. Hard to believe it was worth it to go to the effort to make and fill such a tiny bottle. At least it must have been easy to ship. 30 miles into the country side west of Boston is far for a Chicago made glass bottle.
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Sweet finds. And a pipe bowl is always a nice bonus.
 

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