cannibalfromhannibal
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Probed out a hole a few days ago and it was finally warm enough to open it up yesterday. (I really hate digging in sub freezing weather.) I researched out the property and though the current house was toc, there was good evidence there was an earlier house possibly from the latest 60's. But after checking the city directories I couldn't find an exact address match prior to 1885. But I was good with that date anyway. So I get to opening up this wood liner and quickly discover there is virtually no cap and goes right in to a use type layer. Started finding shards and yellow ware at a foot deep and toc bottles another foot deeper. Got to about the four foot depth and hit the first of 3 lime layers. Sadly, I clunked into the hard clay bottom less than 6 foot deep! Why are all the best pits always shallow? Fortunately it was a bit longer than average around here at 8', so it made up for a couple lost feet in average depth. The first decent cluster of bottles looked like a medium sized Kilmers, and a citrate of magnesia and a mineral water. I was only correct on the mineral water and it was busted. The citrate turned out to be a larger sized local pharmacy that I needed and the Kilmer's turned out to be a large size King's New Discovery. I was happy, as I never dug a large size before and it had a nice older look to it. Next, near the bottom in one corner came out a Dr Roger's Canchalagua and a tombstone shaped bottle I was sure was a gargling oil but was a nice early Shilo's Consumption Cure. both have half circle key molds and then next to them with a huge chunk of dinnerware on top of it came one of the coolest pumpkinseed flasks I ever dug. Has embossed clock face with embossed "Grandfather's Clock" on the face. The stunner is the wonky crooked neck! Backside has a 5 point star. Very crude and early looking, it doen't match the one listed in the flask book. There are no air ventis and the sides are rounded not pointed, plus it has a star not mentioned. Nearing the end and on the bottom came a nice early Jaynes Vermifuge, wittled to death and a nice applied top Dr Harter's Fever & Ague Specific. Next to them came out another large King's but this one is really crude. No air venting and key mold with a faint what looks like Mc C and has cerif embossing along with a backwards apostrophe! All this with an applied drippy top! Along with a hatfull of local pharmacy bottles representing 6 different stores and 3 different variations, it was a great 6 hour dig. The real crier was a broken gloppy top smooth based pineapple bitters. But no crying here. I was happy if I found zip after that flask......
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