My first dig!

[annie44]

Went on my first dig yesterday with Chris, Alan, and Doug and had a great time. They had no objection to my posting a few pics on the forum so here they are......This first one is a picture of the breezeway that we walked through to get to the back patio area, where the privy was buried in concrete.

 

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This was our starting point.

 

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Chris in the hole. It was a square wood liner and went down about 7 feet. The layer where everything was found was pure muck - felt like glue and was heavy as wet cement. Yes, I did go down in the hole and feel around in the muck!!! As a "newbie" I was pretty thrilled by everything we found.

 

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I pulled this pickle out, and it would have been a really good one if fully intact.....

 

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Alan found this very cool Native American carving......

 

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Our best find was actually a Baltimore bottle that Chris didn't already have! It was a base embossed whiskey and I believe that the embossing was T. Hart and Sons, Baltimore. It was near mint! I brought home a Baltimore soda (pontiled but unembossed), a pontiled Mrs Winslow's, and a couple of pontiled utilities.

 

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We found a lot of pottery shards for these chamber pots - I am going to try to piece a few together.

 

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I forgot to take a picture of this cleaned off, but it is a huge platter, and we have almost all of it. It is really beautiful. If I can get it pieced together, Chris will glue it and I think it will display really well.

 

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Finally, in case anyone is wondering - YES - I am so sore today I can hardly move!!! My hands hurt, my shoulders hurt, my arms hurt, and my lower back hurts!!!! But I would do it again tomorrow - too bad I can't quit the day job yet!!

And just how do you get your fingernails clean??? I wore gloves while digging, and I have scrubbed and scrubbed, but I still went to work with filthy hands today!

 

[marjorie040]

Annie44
Great pictures!

As for the fingernails....I use lemon juice to scrub brush the nails and it works pretty well.....soak prior to scrubbrushing if necessary.

Regards,