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[reach44]

If old enough, are cisterns a good place to find bottles?

 

[cowseatmaize]

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You have to ask nicer than that. []

 

[reach44]

Pwease?

 

[cowseatmaize]

That's better. [] Short answer is maybe. There can be cisterns that are 200 years old but didn't get filled in until last week.
Only you and the shovel will know for sure.

 

[GuntherHess]

people didn't throw junk in operating cisterns so there will be nothing thrown in it before it was abandoned. So if it was abandoned before 1900 it could be good.

 

[nhpharm]

Down here in Texas they are for sure worth digging. Most of them seem to have been abandoned around 1910-1920 and so we find late hutches, straight side Cokes, local embossed pharmacy bottles, and pottery jugs in them...as well as a lot of (whole) oil lamps. I guess they must have gotten electricity around then too and heaved their lamps in the cistern out back.

 

[KentOhio]

I dug one that had about a dozen stoneware wax sealer jars, and almost nothing else.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

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You have to ask nicer than that. []

Come on now cow the guy could have been a game show host all of his life.ya never know [8D]


I only dug one good cistern that produced 1870s-80s glass. It is a gamble to dig these. like everyone said,it depends when they were filled in.

 

[reach44]

Thanks everyone. It seems to have about 8 inches of water left in it.