Hezezilla
Active Member
Aloha!
I am a fresh newbie so please give me some slack.
I am a student at Kalani HS in East Oahu. In my general activities, I've come across a wide variety of glass. The majority is modern but I have noted quite a few exceptions. I recently got permission to dig in the rear portion of the campus. I dug several holes and to my surprise, despite the surface being littered with old glass and porcelain, beyond the 1ft level, there was nothing else.
I've done my research and I do know that before Kalani HS was built in 1958, there were multiple pig farms and a Japanese worker village. I can trace this back to roughly the 1920s. Beyond that point, the only signs of habitation were a slew of newspaper articles dating to the 1870s-1890s. I'm specifically digging the bed of the old Waialae-Iki stream. As I said, I expected to find lots of bottles in that spot especially considering people back then would often dump trash in the streams. But, there was nothing beyond the 1ft level. And even then, only scattered fragments popped out.
Most of the glass fragments will forever remain unidentified but, I have luckily been able to figure out what a few of these fragments once were a part of. I have found fragments of Best Foods Mayo Jars, a Royal Soda 6 1/2oz. Bottle, a Hero Glass works jar, and interestingly an 1880s Clarke & White mineral water. Also, I found multiple bits of blue-glazed porcelain of Japanese manufacture and a Japanese coin from 1921.
Attached are some photos of the aforementioned pieces.
Let me know your thoughts! I am interested to see what more experienced diggers think of my finds!
-Hezezilla
I am a fresh newbie so please give me some slack.
I am a student at Kalani HS in East Oahu. In my general activities, I've come across a wide variety of glass. The majority is modern but I have noted quite a few exceptions. I recently got permission to dig in the rear portion of the campus. I dug several holes and to my surprise, despite the surface being littered with old glass and porcelain, beyond the 1ft level, there was nothing else.
I've done my research and I do know that before Kalani HS was built in 1958, there were multiple pig farms and a Japanese worker village. I can trace this back to roughly the 1920s. Beyond that point, the only signs of habitation were a slew of newspaper articles dating to the 1870s-1890s. I'm specifically digging the bed of the old Waialae-Iki stream. As I said, I expected to find lots of bottles in that spot especially considering people back then would often dump trash in the streams. But, there was nothing beyond the 1ft level. And even then, only scattered fragments popped out.
Most of the glass fragments will forever remain unidentified but, I have luckily been able to figure out what a few of these fragments once were a part of. I have found fragments of Best Foods Mayo Jars, a Royal Soda 6 1/2oz. Bottle, a Hero Glass works jar, and interestingly an 1880s Clarke & White mineral water. Also, I found multiple bits of blue-glazed porcelain of Japanese manufacture and a Japanese coin from 1921.
Attached are some photos of the aforementioned pieces.
Let me know your thoughts! I am interested to see what more experienced diggers think of my finds!
-Hezezilla