baltbottles
Well-Known Member
Here's pictures from some digs over the past two months The fist picture is
of a dig in Wilmington Del. The hole was in the middle of the yard and of course
someone had to build there bar-b-q pit right over it. The Sledge makes quick
work of it. Lets open her up. Its a brick liner.
Going down not bad digging
The hole was a deep brick liner it bottomed out at about 18 feet this one
sucked. it was cleaned to the bottom we got nothing.
Next hole please
This pic is out of order but its a cool picture from the bottom of a 20
footer in Philly
Next Hole
This is of a brick liner that was cut through on a Philly construction site
This one went down 16 feet and had a think foot trash layer on the bottom
sadly the age was 1930s. I could have stayed in Baltimore and dug crown top
beers. Check out the nice early house in the background.
Ok next hole Back to Baltimore
Hey look its a fresh construction site downtown awesome. We quickly found two
brick liners.
This ones an oval shaped brick liner these usually are good and don't get
deeper then 12-14 feet and you get pontils. Well this one at 10 feet turned
round and went another 12 feet beyond that to a crappy 2 foot layer of 1890s
with nothing but broken ironstone. This sucks
Enough of these stupid brick liners Give me a woody any day.
Next hole was a double barrel about 8 feet deep it was on the west side of Baltimore
in the Poppleton neighborhood. It was ok we got alot of bottles out of it
however it only got back to the 1870s on the bottom we had expected it to go to
pontils these usually do in this part of town.
Next hole same yard 2 days later. This one turned out to be a square woody it
went about 7 feet deep and had a good solid 2 feet of early glass. As soon as i
found this hole I knew it would be the old hole for the house.
Here's a pic of my share of the finds from this hole. It was a great hole we
both went home with several nice pontiled bottles
Next hole was on another down town construction site that had dug the
whole site down about 10 feet and we got the bottom 2 feet of an oval shaped
brick liner. It was all pontils but it was that thick wet black muck. But it was
nice to just pick out the bottles for a change.
this hole had alot of stuff in it but most of it wasn't that great We did get
some nice pottery to glue back and some pontiled puffs. hers a pic of the stuff I
brought home.
This is awesome pontils two digs in a row lets try for three. We ended up
back in Poppleton and got into a double barrel lined pit behind a recently
emptied house.
Going down the only thing was we had got a late start and we only had about 2
hours before dark. And the second barrel was loaded with stuff.
This was one of those killer holes you dream about. here's a pic of the stuff
I got. Lots of great stuff I was most happy with a rare pontiled Baltimore
medicine I didn't have. The blue ink was nice too.
Chris
of a dig in Wilmington Del. The hole was in the middle of the yard and of course
someone had to build there bar-b-q pit right over it. The Sledge makes quick
work of it. Lets open her up. Its a brick liner.
Going down not bad digging
The hole was a deep brick liner it bottomed out at about 18 feet this one
sucked. it was cleaned to the bottom we got nothing.
Next hole please
This pic is out of order but its a cool picture from the bottom of a 20
footer in Philly
Next Hole
This is of a brick liner that was cut through on a Philly construction site
This one went down 16 feet and had a think foot trash layer on the bottom
sadly the age was 1930s. I could have stayed in Baltimore and dug crown top
beers. Check out the nice early house in the background.
Ok next hole Back to Baltimore
Hey look its a fresh construction site downtown awesome. We quickly found two
brick liners.
This ones an oval shaped brick liner these usually are good and don't get
deeper then 12-14 feet and you get pontils. Well this one at 10 feet turned
round and went another 12 feet beyond that to a crappy 2 foot layer of 1890s
with nothing but broken ironstone. This sucks
Enough of these stupid brick liners Give me a woody any day.
Next hole was a double barrel about 8 feet deep it was on the west side of Baltimore
in the Poppleton neighborhood. It was ok we got alot of bottles out of it
however it only got back to the 1870s on the bottom we had expected it to go to
pontils these usually do in this part of town.
Next hole same yard 2 days later. This one turned out to be a square woody it
went about 7 feet deep and had a good solid 2 feet of early glass. As soon as i
found this hole I knew it would be the old hole for the house.
Here's a pic of my share of the finds from this hole. It was a great hole we
both went home with several nice pontiled bottles
Next hole was on another down town construction site that had dug the
whole site down about 10 feet and we got the bottom 2 feet of an oval shaped
brick liner. It was all pontils but it was that thick wet black muck. But it was
nice to just pick out the bottles for a change.
this hole had alot of stuff in it but most of it wasn't that great We did get
some nice pottery to glue back and some pontiled puffs. hers a pic of the stuff I
brought home.
This is awesome pontils two digs in a row lets try for three. We ended up
back in Poppleton and got into a double barrel lined pit behind a recently
emptied house.
Going down the only thing was we had got a late start and we only had about 2
hours before dark. And the second barrel was loaded with stuff.
This was one of those killer holes you dream about. here's a pic of the stuff
I got. Lots of great stuff I was most happy with a rare pontiled Baltimore
medicine I didn't have. The blue ink was nice too.
Chris
] , some very nice items out of them too.
