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10ft Dig and All By Yourself/What to do?
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That seventh pic is the area where the gully is. I actually dug more bottles from that area than I have gotten from the deep pit I'm still digging. I have dug out a lot more bottles since taking these pics. I have a good size box with more than a hundred small bottles. Hardly any of these bottles have been cleaned. I have a sample of what I have pulled in the house. Those are the only bottles I have cleaned.
The big tree root in the pit I have since dug out. It was a pain getting out of there!
Try to remember that I am a beginner in all of this so please be patient with me!
The big tree root in the pit I have since dug out. It was a pain getting out of there!
Try to remember that I am a beginner in all of this so please be patient with me!
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I carried most of that dirt from the gully with the bottles in it up to where I'm digging the pit out. I still have bucket fulls of dirt that I need to go through. No telling how many more bottles are in those piles of dirt. I have piled up the leftover sand from the pit in another area. I need to go through that with a fine tooth comb.
junkmansitch
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That sure is alot of bottles. Based on the pics they look to be from the 1920s thru 1940s. I would say you have a mega dump site on your hands.
GRIT
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I think you're spot on with the bottle dating. I may have a few that are a little older according to the bottle dating website, but that could be my inexperience or just plain wishful thinking. I'm hoping the deeper I get the older they'll get. It's just really slow going; especially the deeper I get.
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Hi, nhpharm. Most of the embossed soda bottles I have found were broken. The ones that did survive are more than likely after 1900. I don't know enough about pharmacy bottles to know if I have any or not. Do you have some examples? I assume pharmacy bottles are not the same as medicine bottles?
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To me Pharmacy bottles, druggist bottles & Medicines bottles are all the same. I could be wrong though. Here's some examples I have. LEON.
