Well, I made my bottle diggin' comeback yesterday in 101 degree heat wading all day through a very polluted creek in Amelia Co. Va. I did not expect much as I knew this site would have been discovered by other diggers since my last visit = late 90s. As I started my wade I noted signs of recent activity: culled/broken bottles lining the banks on either side, I did not even find a whole dud over the first 1/2 mile, bumming I was, but I remained focused and patient.
I noted as the creek got further from civilization and rougher to navigate (it is a brutal/nasty wade), the signs of looting lessened and the finds started: first an amber Lynchburg Va. Coke, then two local Farmville mineral water bottles (crowns), an amethyst Lazarus-Gooding Lynchburg bar-bottle, an amethyst Farmville Dispensary flask, a crock ink, a bowling pin: Arctic Fruit Juice (Norfolk), a Miller and Pierce Apothacaries (Richmond), another Dispensary flask, a Cole Distillery baltimore oval (Louisville)and finally an amethyst Peterburg Va. Coke. There were other decent bottles as well - some I kept, some I sacrificed as the wade back was difficult (had to leave two large crock jugs as well).
Sad note of the day was the third Farmville Dispensary flask that I found and subsequently broke (I had placed the flask on the bank while I was grubbing, I got preturbed when I brought up a sweet-looking medicine with no embossment and carelessly pitched it = guess where it landed?).
I did take some pics of the haul, will share when I overcome technical limitations...
Thanx to everyone for getting me going again. E
I noted as the creek got further from civilization and rougher to navigate (it is a brutal/nasty wade), the signs of looting lessened and the finds started: first an amber Lynchburg Va. Coke, then two local Farmville mineral water bottles (crowns), an amethyst Lazarus-Gooding Lynchburg bar-bottle, an amethyst Farmville Dispensary flask, a crock ink, a bowling pin: Arctic Fruit Juice (Norfolk), a Miller and Pierce Apothacaries (Richmond), another Dispensary flask, a Cole Distillery baltimore oval (Louisville)and finally an amethyst Peterburg Va. Coke. There were other decent bottles as well - some I kept, some I sacrificed as the wade back was difficult (had to leave two large crock jugs as well).
Sad note of the day was the third Farmville Dispensary flask that I found and subsequently broke (I had placed the flask on the bank while I was grubbing, I got preturbed when I brought up a sweet-looking medicine with no embossment and carelessly pitched it = guess where it landed?).
I did take some pics of the haul, will share when I overcome technical limitations...
Thanx to everyone for getting me going again. E