Digging In The Old Town Dump

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I took the kids out on their first dig Sunday. The old Waldoboro town dump has produced everything from pontils to porcelain signs, poisons, milks and everything in between. Although this dump has been turned over a thousand times by now, there are still good bottles in it. Two years ago I got a nice unlisted size pontilled N.Wood / Portland, Me. We had a great time and the kids picked up a couple of "keepers". The first part of the adventure for them was walking under Route One through this tunnel.....

 

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The water leads the way to the dump...

 

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The dump site stretches out so you have a lot of choices to dig in.

 

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Another angle

 

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They eerily called themselves "Children Of The Dump" . They look so innocent now, but wait until they have to split the finds!

 

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I told you it was only a matter of time until the bottles came between them...

 

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Some of the parts and pieces

 

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Fragments: A nice green med, a cathedral peppersauce, a teal master ink, an open pontil, a flask with O.G.R. on the base. So sad.

 

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I dug a hole about four feet deep by five feet long and got into an undug layer.

 

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Christina got a purple flask and Julia got a purple jelly jar, along with these others.