Right under my feet just never looked

[Oldihtractor]

Have lived in my old appox 1790's house for 20 plus years now. and right under my feet under the living room we always use..... were bottles and I never even looked.. But the other day something dead stunk from down below in the basement area. got my trusty mag lite and had a look. never have looked in the crawl space ever moveed the board peeked in looked around and whats that a bottle.. dam looks kinda early.. i reach in and pull it out low and behold open pontiled Dr Tobias venetain liniment looks to be a mustard shard also looked around some more and can see some green neck sticking out of the dirt way in the back and lots of shards.. but i am too big to fit in the opening and under the floor to get there..

here is what I could reach and see with out digging.. a full dig is in order for sure I dug a little trench today and there is layer down there..

 

[Oldihtractor]

pontil and hole

 

[Oldihtractor]

other side

 

[epackage]

Sounds like a good dig to do with the kids...

 

[Oldihtractor]

The darkness below

 

[Oldihtractor]

shards back there

 

[Oldihtractor]

can see green bottle necks back under that pipe down in a hole

 

[Ratzilla]

Oh come on! That looks pretty roomy under there! I've never let a little claustrophobia stop me from reaching the goodies. I know the kids are probably dying to do the dirty work for you...[] Looks like good potential!

 

[cacarpetbagger]

I would be very interested to see what comes out, hope you score. True story, crawling a saloon once not enough room to get at the bottles we could see. Went home got my 8 year old son, tied a rope around him in case he got stuck. He got the bottles, should have seen the look on my wife's face when was told of it years later. I am sure there must be a law against what I did as there should be. Anyway he is all grown up now so I don't think he would fit. Good luck.

 

[JOETHECROW]

OMG! <laughing> I'd be cutting the floor out and pulling it up...[] Thats awesome!