NyDigger1
Well-Known Member
I am an experienced digger and I usually know where to find bottles by location but this place has stumped the crap out of me.
Ok, so I went scouting for new spots, and it turns out that there is a digging spot by the water not too far away from me.
I went down to a creek, found literally tons of shards of all local blobs, meds, flasks, and daries, all broken. The odd thing is that they look as if they were broken recently, and not water worn (the creek is close to the ocean and is affected by waves at high tide every day). So I start digging around and there is no layer, just regular soil under the shards. I tried digging away from the shards, further from the water, and no such luck either. I tried probing as well using a 5 ft probe to try and find a layer, and a 2 foot sand probe to try and find single bottles, no luck as well.
About 30 feet back there is a cliff that goes up about 60 feet. It was steep at about an 80 degree angle. Through the foliage I see a little cave of sorts that seemed to have been dug out by someone. So i made the 20 foot climb up and found a crater in the cliff face that someone dug. There was alot of 1880s-1920s type ash, both black and white, alot of old 1870s-1880s bricks, and to top it off, a shovel that someone left in the hole that had snapped in two. The weird thing is that there was not a single shard to be found in that crater.
I dug the crater for 3 hours, making it 3 times its original size. Out came about 60 whole embossed bricks (which i tossed aside), and only 1 shard of window glass.
On the old maps there was a mansion at the top of the cliff that went back to 1873. But i find it hard to believe that they threw just the bottles straight down into the water, and just the bricks into the ash fill. Even if they threw the bottles down from 60 feet straight to where the shards are now, alot of them would have survived because of the soft landing (mix of sand, mud, and soil) with no rocks present.
I also took a quick walk out into the water with waders and there were no bottles or shards to be found 30 feet out either.
The only things I found to keep were a small ceramic dog figure, about half dollar size, and a porcelain blob top stopper which was taken out of the top half of a blob.
WHERE ARE THE BOTTLES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! [
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Please help anyone?
Ok, so I went scouting for new spots, and it turns out that there is a digging spot by the water not too far away from me.
I went down to a creek, found literally tons of shards of all local blobs, meds, flasks, and daries, all broken. The odd thing is that they look as if they were broken recently, and not water worn (the creek is close to the ocean and is affected by waves at high tide every day). So I start digging around and there is no layer, just regular soil under the shards. I tried digging away from the shards, further from the water, and no such luck either. I tried probing as well using a 5 ft probe to try and find a layer, and a 2 foot sand probe to try and find single bottles, no luck as well.
About 30 feet back there is a cliff that goes up about 60 feet. It was steep at about an 80 degree angle. Through the foliage I see a little cave of sorts that seemed to have been dug out by someone. So i made the 20 foot climb up and found a crater in the cliff face that someone dug. There was alot of 1880s-1920s type ash, both black and white, alot of old 1870s-1880s bricks, and to top it off, a shovel that someone left in the hole that had snapped in two. The weird thing is that there was not a single shard to be found in that crater.
I dug the crater for 3 hours, making it 3 times its original size. Out came about 60 whole embossed bricks (which i tossed aside), and only 1 shard of window glass.
On the old maps there was a mansion at the top of the cliff that went back to 1873. But i find it hard to believe that they threw just the bottles straight down into the water, and just the bricks into the ash fill. Even if they threw the bottles down from 60 feet straight to where the shards are now, alot of them would have survived because of the soft landing (mix of sand, mud, and soil) with no rocks present.
I also took a quick walk out into the water with waders and there were no bottles or shards to be found 30 feet out either.
The only things I found to keep were a small ceramic dog figure, about half dollar size, and a porcelain blob top stopper which was taken out of the top half of a blob.
WHERE ARE THE BOTTLES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! [
][>:][][>:]Please help anyone?
