portland pontil finds

[portland med. man]

here`s a pic of some finds of this old dump we have been hitting....

 

[portland med. man]

it appears to be plowed and the soil is very rooty and compact not making bottle rate survival very good...here`s a old ale pulled out we found over 50 of these and about half had damage ....

 

[portland med. man]

here`s a cool ink stoneware and probably english not sure though very nice ink and damage free.....

 

[portland med. man]

the oldest wine bottle started to poke out of joels hole and i was like holy crap, you got a old one there he said it appears to be hole the site we are at is dated to 1753 that was when the house was built.....

 

[portland med. man]

as you can see the grips of death was very close for that bottle the place is loaded full of roots.... he grabed it and gave it a wiggle it was packed in there tight it took him 20-30 minutes to budge that one out...

 

[portland med. man]

i would say that wine is early maybe 1830-40`s due to the large volume of broken pontilales and pontiled med`s i found with joel 6 broken mrs. kidders dysentary cordials from boston all open pontil ,,,,, some one was sick... here`s a couple i found almost all in one little area of the dump....

 

[portland med. man]

some more pieces we found shame all the great old broken stuff....i save it so dont worry the dont make glass like that any more.....

 

[portland med. man]

towards the end of the dig i found a huge blood amber demi john broken all in place took me awhile to gather all the glass in my bag and i found the base and top and left it for the next time i hit it here`s the base and top of the open pontil demi john huge pontil almost worthy of the shibby ashtray.......

 

[portland med. man]

hope to have some pics soon of this tavern dig waiting for .. the water table to go down it should be fat ....... cheers and enjoy.....

 

[Mainepontil]

Can't wait to get back in there. Just reading in my local history book that the tavern burned in 1882. There is 275 years of history to dig there.

Joel