norflo2norcal
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After probing and digging, probing and digging, probing and digging, I finally found a bottle pit on my parents' property.......and not even by probing! I was metal detecting and came across something, so I started digging. I uncovered a small piece of brass, and TONS of broken glass. Broken glass is always an incidental finding when I dig ANYWHERE in their yard, but this was a too much glass to be incidental, so I kept digging. It wasn't long until dark, and this is what I uncovered the first day - the brass that set my detector off, and a Belfast round bottom ginger ale.
I called it a night, and came back the next morning with my husband, the muscle. He is usually my unwilling accomplice, but in this case, he dived right in. [
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My dog Turtle was dig supervisor.
We pulled out 3 5-gallon buckets of broken glass, and about 23 intact bottles by the time we were done. Most were unmarked wine and mineral waters, but we also found another Belfast round bottom and 2 Conrad's Original Budweisers. The tiniest bottle find of the dig was this cute little medicine bottle.
Most of our finds:
The best finds of the second day:
A closer look at one of the Budweisers:
I am so happy to have finally experienced a bottle pit dig. I've been pulling bottles out of the St Johns River for years, so this was totally new to me. I will continue to study the property and dig, dig, dig! Below is an old aerial view of how the area used to look. My parents' property is outlined in red, and the blue X is approximately where I found the pit.
Happy Digging!!
I called it a night, and came back the next morning with my husband, the muscle. He is usually my unwilling accomplice, but in this case, he dived right in. [
]
My dog Turtle was dig supervisor.
We pulled out 3 5-gallon buckets of broken glass, and about 23 intact bottles by the time we were done. Most were unmarked wine and mineral waters, but we also found another Belfast round bottom and 2 Conrad's Original Budweisers. The tiniest bottle find of the dig was this cute little medicine bottle.
Most of our finds:
The best finds of the second day:
A closer look at one of the Budweisers:
I am so happy to have finally experienced a bottle pit dig. I've been pulling bottles out of the St Johns River for years, so this was totally new to me. I will continue to study the property and dig, dig, dig! Below is an old aerial view of how the area used to look. My parents' property is outlined in red, and the blue X is approximately where I found the pit.
Happy Digging!!
