KBbottles
Well-Known Member
Sometimes its funny how digging bottles and artifacts connect you with new people and new potential digging sites. Several months ago I went privy digging in a major city about an hour from home with a couple of digging buddies, one being Ratzilla, who occasionally posts here as well. Towards the end of the day, we were checking out an old crawlspace and he managed to scratch around and find a broken pint milk bottle which happened to have the same embossing as a farm and farmers market that is literally a short walk from my house. Embossed with the same town and all as well! I was in shock that this bottle even existed and made it all the way into the city we were digging. My digging buddies graciously let me take the shards of milk home to glue back together.
I contacted the owners of the farm, and they were very fascinated that this bottle had been discovered. They are still further researching the history of the farm as they werent aware of them ever bottling dairy products. Long story short, I brought the bottle to them and gifted it. As we talked, I told them all about the dumps I have dug in the area and shared that I once found an old cast iron property sign with a name on it and it turned out that this man was the wife's Grandfather. I brought the sign to her as well as I had no use for it but kept it for historical purposes. now it is reunited with the family after years of being buried. Awesome!!
The farm owners were so excited to own these historical artifacts. So excited that in return, they shared their old property dump site with me and informed me that their house was built in 1750! I was able to visit for the first time on Friday afternoon for a couple of hours as I had plans for the weekend with family. For a house this old, the dump the owner showed me was not too big and only covered the surface about a foot in a small concentrated area. I brought a scratcher with me to check it out. It was mostly TOC and later.
Immediately, I began picking up tons of shards of blobs, hutches, BIM crown sodas, and all sorts of other broken stuff. The only survivors I found were a large BIM wine bottle unembossed of course, an AMB Hires Extract, and some other commons. I scratched all over the place and got very disappointed with the rare locals that turned up smashed.
I contacted the owners of the farm, and they were very fascinated that this bottle had been discovered. They are still further researching the history of the farm as they werent aware of them ever bottling dairy products. Long story short, I brought the bottle to them and gifted it. As we talked, I told them all about the dumps I have dug in the area and shared that I once found an old cast iron property sign with a name on it and it turned out that this man was the wife's Grandfather. I brought the sign to her as well as I had no use for it but kept it for historical purposes. now it is reunited with the family after years of being buried. Awesome!!
The farm owners were so excited to own these historical artifacts. So excited that in return, they shared their old property dump site with me and informed me that their house was built in 1750! I was able to visit for the first time on Friday afternoon for a couple of hours as I had plans for the weekend with family. For a house this old, the dump the owner showed me was not too big and only covered the surface about a foot in a small concentrated area. I brought a scratcher with me to check it out. It was mostly TOC and later.
Immediately, I began picking up tons of shards of blobs, hutches, BIM crown sodas, and all sorts of other broken stuff. The only survivors I found were a large BIM wine bottle unembossed of course, an AMB Hires Extract, and some other commons. I scratched all over the place and got very disappointed with the rare locals that turned up smashed.
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