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hey everyone , i mainly do colonial/civil war relic hunting, i belong over at TreasureNet but wanted to post this here about a bottle pit i found next to an old 1950-late 60s house site.
Went out this afternoon after work to try and dig some huts in a confederate camp out near Spotsylvania that i've had fairly good success in but the ground was just too frozen and didnt really feel like messing with that hard soil so I just decided too take alittle hike down into a swamp land and hit a path i never seen before and walked down it and something caught my eye about 30 yards from the path, went to it and it was a 1960s car that someone junked then i walked up the hill and sure enough found an old burnt down/bull dozed 1950-late 1960s house which i've seen 100s of 1950s-1960s old house sites in the woods and thought nothing of then i walked over and peaked down the hill and spotted a pit, walked down to the pit and moved some old house debris out of the way and what i saw is something I never seen before a whole pit filled with 100s and 100s of bottles from the 1950s-late 60s, kids toys, old cans...
I went and got the truck and drove down the path and took two buckets and it only took 15 minutes too pick up a bunch of bottles and fill two buckets up, there must be 1000 more bottles in that pit. Here is some photos. I rarely collect anything mid 20th century but this was jut crazy,This is one trash pit I dont need my detector for...
Went out this afternoon after work to try and dig some huts in a confederate camp out near Spotsylvania that i've had fairly good success in but the ground was just too frozen and didnt really feel like messing with that hard soil so I just decided too take alittle hike down into a swamp land and hit a path i never seen before and walked down it and something caught my eye about 30 yards from the path, went to it and it was a 1960s car that someone junked then i walked up the hill and sure enough found an old burnt down/bull dozed 1950-late 1960s house which i've seen 100s of 1950s-1960s old house sites in the woods and thought nothing of then i walked over and peaked down the hill and spotted a pit, walked down to the pit and moved some old house debris out of the way and what i saw is something I never seen before a whole pit filled with 100s and 100s of bottles from the 1950s-late 60s, kids toys, old cans...
I went and got the truck and drove down the path and took two buckets and it only took 15 minutes too pick up a bunch of bottles and fill two buckets up, there must be 1000 more bottles in that pit. Here is some photos. I rarely collect anything mid 20th century but this was jut crazy,This is one trash pit I dont need my detector for...
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