Skull & Crossbones Poison, Huge Clay Marble Hoard, etc. (June 22, 2023)

[UnderMiner]

Dug all this today:

Tooled Tincture of Iodine bottle:

Clay marble hoard. There were 34 clay marbles, three glass marbles, and several particularly round acorns and chestnuts (which I can only assume were used as marble substitutes by an ingenious child)

Digging the marble hoard:

 

[DiggingDaily]

My haul for the day! Yours is quite impressive indeed!

 

[CanadianBottles]

Nice finds! I don't remember seeing a BIM version of those iodine bottles before, I thought they were only in use during the ABM era.

 

[Newtothiss]

Dug all this today:

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Tooled Tincture of Iodine bottle:
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Clay marble hoard. There were 34 clay marbles, three glass marbles, and several particularly round acorns and chestnuts (which I can only assume were used as marble substitutes by an ingenious child)
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Digging the marble hoard:
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I think I hate you?

 

[UnderMiner]

Nice finds! I don't remember seeing a BIM version of those iodine bottles before, I thought they were only in use during the ABM era.

BIM on left, ABM on right. The one on the left dates no later than 1924 (the year the landfill was capped), the one on the right dates no later than 1953 (the year that landfill was capped):

I would wager both bottles may predate the last known date of their respective landfills by at least a decade as Tincture of Iodine was a seldom used antiseptic and could have been in a medicine cabinet for years before being disposed of.

 

[UnderMiner]

I think I hate you?

I'm flattered but I already have several haters, all wanting a piece of my precious digging locations haha

 

[Newtothiss]

I believe it

 

[Hogtown Hunter]

Why is that skull smiling at me?
Nice finds again.

 

[embe]

Nice marbles.

 

[moodorf]

I found one of those tincture of iodine poison bottles too. Cool little bottles. I have found literally two clay marbles in my travels so your motherload is most impressive!