Great dig today

[Andyf]

Well, I braved snow and freezing windto go digging today. It was a looong walk to the dig through on forest trails...

 

[Andyf]

I started badly, moving 3 yards of ash for one burst lip ink. Not good. I was goingto abandon, and thought I'd go around with a fork first. Suddenly I hit a lot of glass Looks like there were two dumps, on for ash, one fr bottles. Maybe they came out the house via dfferent doors. Anyhow, the ground was so packed full of glass, I did not dare use the fork. I had to scrabble with hands to pull out bottle after bottle. Looks like they had all rolled down a slope and accumulated at the bottom...

 

[Andyf]

Here are the first finds, both BIMAL.

 

[Andyf]

I found about 60 bottles, mostly 1890-1915 All jumbled up together.

Here are the best... I found three spoons in the dig! Mostly these are bottles from a poor family, nothing expensive or extravagant

 

[Andyf]

This was the best...

"Harwoods Embrocation for horses and Cattle"

Complete with glass stopper. Nice! Thats my keeper for the day!

 

[Andyf]

And a few more...

I'm going to have to clean some up before I can post pics. The Brown bottle the left is very interesting, but you can't see why yet!!

 

[bearswede]

Looks like fun, Andy!!

Ron

 

[Andyf]

Here is the brown bottle. I found 8+ brown and just one clear. The embossing says "Silver Churn Butter Colour" with a milk churn trade mark.

I guess this is not surprising for a farm dig!

Theres a great link about this bottle here::

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/evanion/ZOOM.ASP?EvanID=4155&ImageNo=0

 

[craigc90]

Congrats those are some real nice finds I am jealous makes me want to go digging but I dont think I am going to get to this weekend[] I like the churn bottle its a keeper

 

[capsoda]

Hey Andy, great finds.Butter coloring? Who wold have ever guessed 100+ years ago. Learn something new every day. Love the cobalt sauce too.

Beutiful scenery.