3/4 Philly Dig

[RCO]

to think i'm still looking at a few feet of snow here , not digging weather and i'm in ontario which isn't really that far from pennsylvania

the cologne bottle is definity cool , don't know anything about its history or value but its cool factor is high

 

[Ratzilla]

The early history of this dig...several years back they dug a large excavation right behind this property to build new houses, just nicking the outside of this pit in the process. At that time, we just poked a hole in the bottom of the wall and raked out what we could, since there was no way to get it from the top back then. Given the gigantic size of the hole, there was a lot we missed, although we were quite content with what we managed to salvage. So this time around, the idea was to just dig straight down to the areas I didn't get the first time, and leave the dug area alone. The problem was to figure out where I had dug before and just how much of the layer I'd gotten from below.

 

[DIGS CHESCO]

Nice finds! I really like that little Philly med, way to stay ahead of the bad weather thats coming thru the region.

Tom

 

[DIGS CHESCO]

Oh by the way, did that box contain vegitarian pizza?

Tom

 

[Ratzilla]

That was the reason for this little test hole in a very large pit. This was the area least likely to have been dug before. If we had found dug area in this test hole, we could just fill it and walk away without a lot of wasted effort. The test hole was quite successful, however, resulting in the entire north side of the pit being opened.

 

[Ratzilla]

The north side of the pit turned out to be almost completely untouched, apparently the earlier effort had centered on the south side of the pit. We cleaned out the north side, didn't really see a need to redig the south side. This shows the hole fully exposed - the fence post was screwed to the fence quite securely, so we just let it hang there. Not a huge number of intact artifacts were found given the size of the thing - this was more a quality, rather than quantity, hole.

 

[Ratzilla]

This was the take from the original dig from the bottom of the south side. Still have to check to see if any of the pottery shards from the two digs match up, I still have a few from the original dig...

 

[tigue710]

nice, looks like a fun dig.

 

[jarhead67]

ORIGINAL: rpinkham

Another interesting example from this dig.

Very interesting bottle. Is that a fouled anchor I see just below the shoulder? Maritime bottle of sorts? And that cup is priceless.

 

[rvcdigger]

Nice one guys!