A dippy day

[Ratzilla]

Got out again this weekend, went back to where we dug the 'not wet' brick cylinders last week, hoping for more good holes. Any hole at all proved elusive for a while, though. Finally figured out why, not everyone on the block had a brick hole. Found a woodliner after a lot of test holes...

 

[Ratzilla]

Alas, the sucker was dipped, just a skim of ironstone and redware shards on the bottom to tease us with what once was there, but not one intact anything[]

 

[Ratzilla]

Then found another disturbance of some sort out in the middle of the block, hesitate to call it a privy, more of an ill defined pile of rocks and 1960's trash with some older stuff around the edges...

 

[Ratzilla]

Did find a couple intact pharmacy bottles in this one, along with a few pottery shards and a broken case gin.

 

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Along with the remnants of a quite fancy Victorian toilet.

 

[Ratzilla]

After that, we moved over a couple blocks and managed to locate a brick cylinder quite easily. looked good going down, oyster shells and bits of glass, then a bit of layer and - auugh! - bottom at 7 feet. Once again the dippers got us, leaving just a skim of stuff on the bottom, at least this time there were a few whole things, a hutch and a few meds, along with a couple nice decorated redware lids to tease us with thoughts of what was once down there...

 

[Ratzilla]

This poor little decapitated kid pretty much sums the day up. There's still hope, though - we did some scouting after filling the hole and found a gopher hole under a huge half dead tree a block away, there were oysters and pontil age shards all around the burrow. A quick map consult showed there was indeed once a pontil age house on the lot. Never used a gopher to probe a hole before - we'll find out how that works out next time when we dig it, hopefully the gopher won't mind[]...

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Sounds like ya got some potential there, gopher it.

 

[Noleakjohn]

Nice john!

 

[botlguy]

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