Got the shock of my life today digging this.

[TexasRancher]

Iron pontil is on my bucket list !
Found a few (3), complete and several broken, glass pontil bottles. The iron pontil eludes me.

I found about 20 of them when i was a boy in Upstate N.Y., all different cool colors too...every one had the neck/top broke off. It's just life...how it rolls.
I have a theory that men riding on their wagons....use to strong arm iron pontils with aim....to try shatter it and something else. Perfect Long Neck Throwing bottle....fun on the wagon road.

 

[Newtothiss]

I'm sure some people will probably call me a cynic if I suggest that was no coincidence; that someone (perhaps named named Leon?) called in an anonymous tip in order to get the government to do some exploratory digging with backhoes and save himself a bunch of back-breaking labor. Thus, I will not suggest such was the case.

Now I am not the law breaking type, but dang! What an idea...