bottlediger
Well-Known Member
Christmas Eve 2007 Pontil Dig
Woke up this morning and figured today would be a good day to dig, I called Chris up and he wanted to dig so we both got together around 11am ish found our first pit around 11:45. This pit sucked, long story short was just a 5-6 footer dipped clean. Found a 2nd pit behind a very early 1830-40 house. The privy was inside the house actually in the addition. This pit turned out to be descent. It was a 3.5x3.5x6 woody started out 90s, then down about 5 ft it turned to a mix of 70s-60s, then at 5.5 it turned to water and bam pontil shards everywhere mixed with tons of early ceramics. First whole pontil was an iron pontil mineral water from central Pa. Then we pulled out some other pontils but were just puffs. Another squat, this one broken, then a local open pontil med. Some more random items, another squat, this one badly cracked. And after that last squat that was about the end of the hole. Some heartbreakers included, a historical flask, an amber case gin pig snout open pontil, a few more local pontil meds, and some very beautiful ceramics. It was a great day to get out and enjoy the nice warm dec weather. Have a great Christmas Everyone.
Digger Ry
Christmas eve pontils [
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Woke up this morning and figured today would be a good day to dig, I called Chris up and he wanted to dig so we both got together around 11am ish found our first pit around 11:45. This pit sucked, long story short was just a 5-6 footer dipped clean. Found a 2nd pit behind a very early 1830-40 house. The privy was inside the house actually in the addition. This pit turned out to be descent. It was a 3.5x3.5x6 woody started out 90s, then down about 5 ft it turned to a mix of 70s-60s, then at 5.5 it turned to water and bam pontil shards everywhere mixed with tons of early ceramics. First whole pontil was an iron pontil mineral water from central Pa. Then we pulled out some other pontils but were just puffs. Another squat, this one broken, then a local open pontil med. Some more random items, another squat, this one badly cracked. And after that last squat that was about the end of the hole. Some heartbreakers included, a historical flask, an amber case gin pig snout open pontil, a few more local pontil meds, and some very beautiful ceramics. It was a great day to get out and enjoy the nice warm dec weather. Have a great Christmas Everyone.
Digger Ry
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