Plumbata
Well-Known Member
And already I've found a dump! [
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The drive from Peoria to Columbus was a tedious 8 hours, largely due to the irregular hillbilly-esque load of furniture which required several adjustments (and low speeds) during the trip. The whole way I was indulging in pipe-dreams about IP Sodas and mountains of early medicines cascading from undiscovered ravines, just waiting for me to stumble upon them. Naturally this will probably never happen anywhere, but the prospect of getting some glass from a far older and larger town than Peoria kept my worn and weary body going.
The day after arriving and unloading, I found an ABM cork bromo in a hole left by a stump-grinder a few blocks from my gal's apartment (Off High St.) while I was taking a walk trying to get acquainted with the new surroundings. A good omen. Common, but still a good sign from the bottle-gods.
Today was the first real day of scouting for bottles (and scrap metal) along the Olentangy river, and I found plenty of scrap copper, scrap wire, and aluminum items, in addition to a great folding camp chair, a 160-200X pocket microscope, a few computer games, a year's worth of Playboys at what seemed to be a homeless camp (left those, god knows where they've been and my gal is more than I can handle anyway!), an estwing hammer, and a handblown hippy-style "Nug Jug" (marijuana bottle, empty sadly) complete with cork, fancy coloring, and refired twist pontil! (the bong next to it was shattered though, lol) []
Grabbed up a few nice buckeyes for my newly initiated "Buckeye" as well, and saw at least 5 snakes in and near water which surprised me. I dunno which ones are poisonous here but I better figure it out fast (especially when scouting wearing flippy-floppies[&:])!
Anyway, I was walking along a slope and saw a buncha TOC-1920 stoneware glass and stuff on the surface amongst the clinkers, mostly the work of groundhogs, and I got myself a 1915 Coca Cola and a slug plate soda with the top knocked off, both from Columbus, as well as a pound of copper sheeting from the pile by one of the holes. I peered in the holes and the ash was awesome looking and deep, with shards and refuse mixed in. Score. I know that this age material isn't really considered worthwhile by diggers here, but i am not spoiled by extremely old stuff yet so I will happly tear the place up looking for some scarce goodies to decorate the girlfriend's apartment with. I'm sure she will love that. []
I also found a dump with 50s stuff on top but that is too new even for me, so I'll leave it be for now. Hopefully as I work my way to the oldest parts of town I will find several more dumps, but considering how little ground I actually covered I think i'm doing great. Pictures to come later.
]The drive from Peoria to Columbus was a tedious 8 hours, largely due to the irregular hillbilly-esque load of furniture which required several adjustments (and low speeds) during the trip. The whole way I was indulging in pipe-dreams about IP Sodas and mountains of early medicines cascading from undiscovered ravines, just waiting for me to stumble upon them. Naturally this will probably never happen anywhere, but the prospect of getting some glass from a far older and larger town than Peoria kept my worn and weary body going.
The day after arriving and unloading, I found an ABM cork bromo in a hole left by a stump-grinder a few blocks from my gal's apartment (Off High St.) while I was taking a walk trying to get acquainted with the new surroundings. A good omen. Common, but still a good sign from the bottle-gods.
Today was the first real day of scouting for bottles (and scrap metal) along the Olentangy river, and I found plenty of scrap copper, scrap wire, and aluminum items, in addition to a great folding camp chair, a 160-200X pocket microscope, a few computer games, a year's worth of Playboys at what seemed to be a homeless camp (left those, god knows where they've been and my gal is more than I can handle anyway!), an estwing hammer, and a handblown hippy-style "Nug Jug" (marijuana bottle, empty sadly) complete with cork, fancy coloring, and refired twist pontil! (the bong next to it was shattered though, lol) [
]Grabbed up a few nice buckeyes for my newly initiated "Buckeye" as well, and saw at least 5 snakes in and near water which surprised me. I dunno which ones are poisonous here but I better figure it out fast (especially when scouting wearing flippy-floppies[&:])!
Anyway, I was walking along a slope and saw a buncha TOC-1920 stoneware glass and stuff on the surface amongst the clinkers, mostly the work of groundhogs, and I got myself a 1915 Coca Cola and a slug plate soda with the top knocked off, both from Columbus, as well as a pound of copper sheeting from the pile by one of the holes. I peered in the holes and the ash was awesome looking and deep, with shards and refuse mixed in. Score. I know that this age material isn't really considered worthwhile by diggers here, but i am not spoiled by extremely old stuff yet so I will happly tear the place up looking for some scarce goodies to decorate the girlfriend's apartment with. I'm sure she will love that. [
] I also found a dump with 50s stuff on top but that is too new even for me, so I'll leave it be for now. Hopefully as I work my way to the oldest parts of town I will find several more dumps, but considering how little ground I actually covered I think i'm doing great. Pictures to come later.
