Dug a good pit in Philadelphia in the rain Sunday

[baltbottles]

Dug a loaded pit in Philadelphia on Sunday in the pouring down rain got 274 pontiled sodas 48 stoneware bottles and 15 other assorted pontiled bottles and some other miscellaneous stuff. It took us 22 hours to dig and fill in the pit so we finished up about 4:30am and decided to just take all the bottles home and wash them and get together today and split up the finds.

Chris

 

[baltbottles]

A table of embossed pontiled sodas

 

[baltbottles]

A table of unembossed pontiled sodas and other assorted pontiled bottles and artifacts.

 

[baltbottles]

And finally half a table of marked stoneware mead and root beer bottles.

 

[epackage]

JAW DROPPING!!​

 

[Bass Assassin]

Amazing, simply amazing.

 

[cyberdigger]

Woah.. [8D] Congrats Chris!!

 

[cobaltbot]

WoW, incredible - that should make up for some of the empty ones -was that bowl intact? I'd like to see more pics of that stuff. Singing, yes singing in the rain......

 

[buzzkutt033]

nice dig Chris. those are the ones that keep us going thru the tough times.

hope you have a few rare ones mixed in there.

we are heading out tomorrow to dig one up in Carbon Cty. it's on the
1852 map, so we're optomistic.

jim

 

[baltbottles]

Jim,

Yeah we got some good ones, very few of the embossed ones we got were common. Most of the layer was 1840s. I have dug a lot of bad pits in Philadelphia and digging empty 20 foot deep pits sucks. but I keep going back for more. I have dug quite a few other good pits in philly but nothing like this one.

Good luck on your dig tomorrow. We are heading south for a dig in Virginia this weekend.

Chris