Is this black glass with pontil mark?

[cannibalfromhannibal]

PS- Forgot to address your question, yes, they often buried the dumpsite and at times accidently dumped years later on the same spot, not knowing of the previous activity. What made a good dumpsite 100 years ago often makes a good one today. Some old town dumps have clear age layers where it may have been used for years, stopped and then reused later. In Quincy Il., I discovered that some neighborhoods had their own dump lots, where about a 10 block area used a particular site to discard. It answered why some areas, entire blocks sometimes have privies with nothing, or even no privies at all. I noticed on the old Sanborn maps that some neighborhoods were well built on, and suddenly in the middle there was a block, or half a block with nothing. No houses, nothing. After probing, it was discovered it was the privy lot for the neighborhood. It pays to be thourough and determined in the search. I hate waking in the middle of the night wondering the missed possibilities, so I am doggedly determined to turn over every rock. Determination will yeild piece of mind (and a strong back) if nothing else.

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

When hunting for bottles, it is often like looking for gold.....it's where you find them. Once, I hunted an old house that had been hunted before me. I caught a glint of something shiny under a plant near the front door and when I pulled back the overgrowth, I discovered a row of old turn mold chianti round bottom bottles, buried upside down to create a terrarium type border for a flower garden. 23 in all, 2 were special, one an olive green with some amber swirling, and one with an acid etched label from Sienna Italy. You never know what or where you might find something.....

 

[Bumpa66]

Thanks for all your iformation. I will go back and probe that site and dig some test holes. Maybe I will get lucky and there will be more underneath.

 

[Penn Digger]

Good luck Bumpa!

PD