Mainepontil
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Jumped the fence at the construction site my digging partner found. They exposed a brick lined privy right at the edge of the property. It was a nice quiet Sunday so I drove right up, put on my orange safety vest and hard hat and walked right over the fence.
People were coming and going but with my "construction gear" they just assumed I was a worker.
What does KEEP OUT really mean? Nothing when you can see a brick lined privy being exposed by construction. Go ahead, write me up for trespassing, I don't care.
What I am doing is saving pieces of history from being destroyed forever.
Here I was just starting to open the hole. It was loaded with bricks and busted pontils. The first piece out was a Kidders Ink.
I continued down about 4' through the brick then just when the bricks stopped....WATER
I had to stop because I did not have any muck gear or pumps. If it still is there next Sunday I'll be back with a pump.
Here is a shot from the street. You can see where I was digging off to the left.
Some of the pieces.
People were coming and going but with my "construction gear" they just assumed I was a worker.
What does KEEP OUT really mean? Nothing when you can see a brick lined privy being exposed by construction. Go ahead, write me up for trespassing, I don't care.
What I am doing is saving pieces of history from being destroyed forever.
Here I was just starting to open the hole. It was loaded with bricks and busted pontils. The first piece out was a Kidders Ink.
I continued down about 4' through the brick then just when the bricks stopped....WATER
Here is a shot from the street. You can see where I was digging off to the left.
Some of the pieces.