Nu_B_2_bottles
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An old timer turned me on to his digging spot from about 20 years ago. He talked about a dozen mounds of which he had dug about three. He seemed to think that the bottles he found dated in the 20s and 30s. As I followed the hand drawn map he made me for me it was not long befor I started finding glass pieces in the roadway. Man, what beautiful chips, cobalt blue, green, and even one that was an opalescent canary color (really lit up under the blacklight on this one!). DINOMYTE! Well, maybe not so fast. Back to the truck and grab the shovel.....off into the three foot deep ditch next to the roadway. Huge clumps of glass, all melted and mangeled but all the different colors of the rainbow. Both sides of the ditch. So, I shot up the 12 foot high hill across the ditch from the spot in the roadway. A quick surface search yielded about 8 beer bottles, an RC Cola bottle, a one quart whiskey bottle, a flask, and a small perfume bottle (just a guess because of the tiny size. Well it would appear from the date on these surface bottles that they were produced around 1967 or so. The mound is grown over with very heavy vegitation so I am figuring that what I have relocated is actually an old dump. It is huge. Now I am open to suggestions on what next. To current for any valuable bottles??? Would all of the old stuff at the base of this 14 foot hill (the really old stuff for this dump) be melted??? Anyone with experience along this type of scenario I would really appreciate your input.